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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: The new American aristocracy 6 GUEST COLUMN: Money in CD2 race 7 DANISH PLAN: Democracy dies in darkness — among other places 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 16 LAB NOTES: Probing nearby stars 26 OVERTONES: Steven Wilson on Camilla and Donald, Peter and Andy and the death of rock music 29 ARTS & CULTURE: CU Eklund Opera melds Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ with ‘Game of Thrones’ 31 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 38 WORDS: ‘A Lesson in Deep Time’ by John Haworth 39 FILM: Return of the Denver Silent Film Festival 41 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County 43 NIBBLES: Will a year-round market hall defuse the charm of Boulder’s famous farmers market? 49 DRINK: Tour de brew: Finish Longmont Restaurant Week trolley-style 53 ICUMI: An irreverent and not always accurate view of the world 55 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 57 SAVAGE LOVE: Crushed 59 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Wait and bake 61 CANNABIS CORNER: Evolve or die
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Highroad The New American Aristocracy by Jim Hightower
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ultibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e. the will of The People — with their plutocratic principle of inviolable property rights, also known as rule by the wealthy minority. Their notion is that We The People cannot be allowed to tax the riches of the owner class, nor set rules on how they treat workers, consumers and society as a whole. To set themselves up as the new American aristocracy, this clique of
moneyed elites has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars — much of it secret — on front groups and whorish politicians. For nearly 40 years, they and their uber-rich allies have torn down legal structures and mechanisms that give ordinary people some chance to control their own destinies. The Kochs’ goals include: • Killing all restrictions on political spending by corporations and the rich. • Suppressing voting rights of students, people of color, the elderly and others who tend to favor Democratic policies. • Eliminating labor unions. • Canceling the right of workers, consumers and others to sue corporations that harm them. • Shredding the social safety net
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including food stamps, Social Security and Medicare. • Axing provisions to protect our environment. • “Preempting” the right of local people to pass laws that corporations oppose. • And packing courts with pro-corporate judges. The Koch conspiracy’s attack on our democratic rights has already rigged our country’s economic and political rules so the richest of the rich can now grab ever more of society’s wealth and power, thus shattering America’s commitment to the Common Good and creating a savage level of inequality. To learn more, go to the watchdog group, Center for Media and Democracy: www.exposedbycmd.org/ koch. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 26 , 2018 5
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Money in CD2 race by Merrily Mazza
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aturday, April 21, I attended the BoCo Dems candidate forum for Colorado’s second congressional district candidates Joe Neguse and Mark Williams. Attendees were asked to write and submit questions. That said, the moderator already had a typed list of questions, and she read from her prepared list. Audience members submitted written questions that were never asked, begging the question: What was the point other than to give the appearance of public input while stopping any pointed, uncomfortablefor-the-candidates questions? My question, never asked, requested that Mr. Neguse explain his contributions from PACs ($400,000-plus to date) and from lawyers and partners at a who’s who of law firms representing the oil and gas industry. I asked what access these contributors think they are buying and how CD2 residents, facing an onslaught of neighborhood and Open Space drilling, should understand the influence of money in his campaign. Mr. Neguse’s lawyer/contributors are partners and attorneys of law firms very familiar to communities sued by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA). The most well-known firm, Brownstein/Hyatt, represented COGA against citizen initiatives passed in Lafayette, Longmont and
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Fort Collins. Another, Polsinelli, represents Extraction Oil & Gas in recent civil suits against nonviolent protestors, a videographer and a legal observer at a recent protest at Bella Romero school in Greeley. The list goes on: Beatty and Wozniak, Patton Boggs, Holland & Hart, Snell & Wilmer, and more. Mr. Neguse said climate change is an “existential threat.” Apparently not when it comes to his campaign contributions. Many Boulder County electeds have endorsed Mr. Neguse, including County Commissioners Jones, Gardner and Domenico, Lafayette’s mayor Christine Berg, Lafayette Councilor Jamie Harkins, state Senator Matt Jones, state Rep Mike Foote, Boulder Mayor Suzanne Jones and several Boulder City Councilors. Do these endorsers know about Mr. Neguses’s campaign contributors and their employers? Or do they just not care? Local families care. They don’t want double-talk about climate change and clean air; they don’t want oil and gas money in Front Range races — either directly or indirectly — and they don’t want wells in their communities. Merrily Mazza is a Lafayette City Councilor. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
danish plan Democracy dies in darkness — among other places by Paul Danish
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arly last year the Washington Post, after vetting about 500 candidate slogans, adopted as its motto the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” An interesting choice, considering that a defining amount of the Washington Post’s content is currently derived from anonymous sources. Here’s another slogan that’s been knocking around newsrooms and J-schools for decades: “Reporters are only as good as their sources.” Indeed. The problem here is that the Post’s use of anonymous sources means readers can’t tell how good the Post’s sources are, and by extension how good the Post is. The sources might be terrific, like Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, during Watergate, or a bit squishier, like Andrew McCabe and James Comey today. But the reader doesn’t know until much later. Worse, the paper doesn’t really know until much later. The Post’s, or any other paper’s, use of anonymous sources should prompt its readers to ask themselves several questions, including: Are the sources reliable? Do the sources have an agenda, and if so what is it? Does the paper have an agenda, and if so, what is it? Are the sources using the paper to further their agenda? Is the paper using the sources to further its agenda? How can readers tell if the Post’s sources are reliable, other than on the strength of the Post’s assertion that they are? Does the source have a public purpose for leaking, or is his or her motive more personal — vengeance, settling a score or currying favor, for instance. Does the paper have a public purpose for printing the anonymously sourced story, or are its motives politically- or business-driven, or even voyeuristic? What are the real stakes for the sources and the paper? Is the leaker remaining anonymous because he or she “is not authorized to speak on the matter” (a boiler-plate rationalization that has come to be routinely used in news stories), or because, like Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning he or she is flirting with treason? And so on. In the past year the Post has published scores of stories about Trump that are anonymously sourced, most of them critical. Critical enough for a reader, even one with a left-leaning bias, to conclude that Boulder Weekly
the paper is out to get Trump — by delegitimizing his election, by calling his judgment and sanity into question, and by picking up on his bread-crumb sins. The one thing we know with certainty about the Post’s sources is that, regardless of their motives, they are unwilling to pay the price that might be extracted for
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Democracy for America (DFA), a political action committee founded by former presidential candidate Howard Dean, claims that its mission is “to take our democracy back from corporations and the wealthy few, and aggressively combat growing income inequality.” Yet, when it comes to Colorado’s Second Congressional District, DFA has abandoned that pledge by endorsing a candidate who has been hand-picked by the Democratic Party establishment and is taking donations from representatives of some of the most powerful corporate interests in the state. DFA has blasted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for inserting itself into campaigns in Pennsylvania and Illinois in an attempt to sabotage progressive candidates. But here in Colorado, DFA is doing exactly the same thing. A recent story in the Boulder Reporter cited complaints that the state Democratic establishment had early on selected Joe Neguse to be the heir apparent to incumbent Jared Polis, who
is running for governor. And former University of Colorado Regent Jim Martin wrote in an op-ed in the Boulder Daily Camera that “a Democratic bigwig showed an advanced state of tone-deafness by dictating that, ‘We have to clear the field for Joe Neguse’ ... a full year before the primary on June 28, 2018.” That maneuvering shouldn’t sit well with the district’s Democratic voters, who like candidates who stand for robust policies that address the needs of all Americans. Why DFA would endorse Joe Neguse over a truly progressive candidate like Mark Williams, who refuses to take PAC donations or money from oil and gas interests, is a question only it can answer. But in the upcoming Democratic primary, district voters will have the opportunity to make up their own minds and support someone who will fight for them and not follow the dictates of the party establishment — in Colorado or in Congress. Cerah Hedrick/Boulder see LETTERS Page 9
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with even less hesitation — as when it printed the names of 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies working on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States. A team of a couple dozen Post investigative reporters spent two years collecting the information from non-classified sources. While in theory anyone could have done so, it’s doubtful that the intelligence agencies of most of the world’s 200-plus countries had the resources or the knowledge of the United States to have done the same. Ditto al Qaeda or the Islamic State. It would be interesting to know to what extent the Post reached out to anonymous sources to compile its lists.) Yet the press defends with equal vigor its constitutional and moral right to conduct its news and information gathering in secret. The fact that this is hypocritical is self-evident but beside the point. The real issue is that there are times when government’s ability to govern effectively, let alone to govern justly, is compromised by its inability to keep secrets. And by the press’ refusal to respect the need for a measure of privacy in the deliberative process — try fashioning a
compromise in a public negotiation — or to respect the privacy of public officials. OK, you’re going to tell me that Trump is a gross, boorish man. You’re right. So were Andrew Jackson and Lyndon Johnson, and a lot of other Presidents. It used to be that presidents were routinely profane and insulting in private. The press kept it off the record. Today it attempts to weaponize non-public speech. To be sure, there are plenty of examples where the use of anonymous sources has served the public good. And plenty of counter-examples as well. The Post and most of the rest of the national press corps has routinized the use of anonymous sources to the point where American journalism is turning into one long anonymous letter, and that is damaging its integrity, credibility, legitimacy and the support of the American people for the First Amendment. It’s true that Democracy can die in metaphorical darkness, as the Post asserts. It’s also true that it can be killed by criminally negligent homicide in broad daylight or assassinated at high noon. Which is why the most important question you can ask the writer of an anonymously sourced story is also the most obvious: Who told you that? This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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Another reason not to arm teachers
Regarding “Gun Control” (Re: News, April 12, 2018). Yes, no. 18, arming teachers is an ugly, dangerous idea — for even one more reason than mentioned: What happens when a teacher loses it? It’s a worst-case scenario: Someone armed, supposedly trusted and already inside the school. The idea of arming teachers relies on the foolish assumptions that you can tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys, and that a Good Guy never turns Bad. Sure, the odds are tiny, but they’re not zero, and there are a lot of public school teachers. Do you bet against millions-to-one odds? Teachers often face major stress already: bratty kids, angry helicopter parents, clueless admins, just for starters. If a teacher snaps, having a gun could mean the difference between an angry outburst and a massacre. Dick Dunn/Longmont
Colorado students deserve fair debt options
I remember stories my dad told me of what my grandfather called wasted youth. This stereotype of partying all night and studying all day is not a full picture of a student’s time. For many students, working during school becomes a necessity. But part time work these days doesn’t come close to paying for a 4-year degree. For more students than ever before, student loans are the only option they see to get through college, and from application to graduation, both students and their parents are inundated with offers for student loan financing. Students are often forced to take these loan servicers’ word and trust them to be fair. Unfortunately, student loan servicers in Colorado are rarely required to be licensed. According to the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), student loan servicers have used the lack of oversight to keep students on the hook as long as possible by: failing to post payments on time, applying payments to interest instead of the principle, leading students away from the quickest repayment options, and more. Without state licensing of student loan servicers, Colorado students and their families are at risk of the same fraudulent treatment. By 2017 Coloradans had already filed 900 complaints against fraudulent Boulder Weekly
practice by loan servicers, an increase of 78 percent from years prior. This session, the Colorado state legislature will consider the Student Loan Servicer Accountability Act. This bill would create a state license for student loan servicers. The act would provide the same basic protections to students and their families that already exist for mortgage, credit card and business loans. Colorado students deserve the opportunity to pay off their loans fairly and to not be defrauded into inescapable debt. Ben Hadley/Boulder
No fracking here
Thousands of earthquakes have occurred in Oklahoma and surrounding areas since 2009. This is up from an average of two earthquakes a year from 1978. Scientific studies attribute the rise in earthquakes to the disposal of wastewater produced during oil extraction that has been injected more deeply into the ground. Near fracking areas there is also a 400 percent increase in childhood leukemia and a significant increase in cancer and respiratory disease for those living within one-half-mile of active well pads. The state of Colorado has the power to tell the County Commissioners to allow fracking on our land even though we Boulder residents paid more than $100 million to create Boulder County Open Space. Right now over 11,000 acres of Open Space and conservation easements are targeted for 192 fracking wells as early as this Spring 2018. However, the legal superiority of the state over the county does not apply to citizens. To learn more about the citizens movement to block this travesty and how you can help, Google “Hold Our Ground Boulder County.” This is urgent. Kate Guilford/Boulder
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en Cohen is on a mission. Since 2013, the Ben & Jerry’s co-founder has been at the forefront of a national money-stamping campaign to rid U.S. politics of corporate influence. “The root cause of [any issue regarding] most anything that anybody cares about, the environment, education, health care, it all comes down to money in politics,” Cohen says. “And until we get rid of money in politics, we’re never going to get the environmental laws, financial laws or health-care laws we really need.” Stamp Stampede is a soon-to-be 100,000-person-strong nonprofit seeking to raise the collective voice of average citizens, backed by research that found politicians are more likely to respond to the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, when a couple ultra-wealthy than the rest of their constituents. hundred protesters converged on New York City. In celebration of the 100,000th stamper signing “Occupy Wall Street was incredibly successful and onto the cause, Cohen will be on Pearl Street April incredibly focused at the very beginning on the issue 29, handing out free scoops of ice cream before giving of economic disparity and the fact that most of the a presentation and responding to questions at the money generated over the last 10 to 20 years has gone Boulder Book Store. to the top 1 percent,” says Cohen, who first arrived at “We want to get as many people as we can to join the Zucotti Park protests in October 2011 with a van us in decorating their dollars, beaufull of ice cream to feed the masses. tifying their bucks,” Cohen says. As the movement progressed, the Stamps range from $6.50-$20, focus became blurry and the singuON THE BILL: Stamp and are engraved with a variety of larity of intent was lost. Still, Cohen Money Out of Politics Rally sayings from “Stamp money out of has remained on target, continuing and Celebration with Ben politics,” and “Not to be used to buy to highlight the basic message of ridCohen. 2:30 p.m., Sunday April 29, Boulder Book Store, elections,” to “Resist: ‘Voter Fraud is ding politics of monied interests. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. a Fraud,’” and “Corporations are not For Stamp Stampede, he looked people.” to other legal money-stamping projThe campaign has two central ects for inspiration, seeking to inject objectives: overturning the controwhat has traditionally been a game versial 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of of sorts with a social and political cause. Citizens United, which allows for unlimited individuThe concept is easy: Stamp a bill, enter the serial number on the website and then sit back and wait for al campaign expenditures by corporations or unions; and improving voting rights protections for historical- someone to spot it. The website tracks stamped bill sightings through a leader board, which adds a bit of ly marginalized communities. friendly competition to the campaign. “We see them as two sides of the same coin, or Until recently, Cohen was at the top, but in dollar bill in our case. It’s about having our votes December of last year, Jerry Greenfield, the other half count,” Cohen says. “For people that can vote, our of the famed ice-cream duo, surpassed Cohen for the votes are getting drowned out by big money in politics. But there are a bunch of people in our country first time. Every time that happens, Cohen gets an that are denied the opportunity to vote at all. It’s only automated email reminding him to keep stamping to when both of those wrongs are corrected that we will regain top-dog status. “It’s horrible, but it is motivatfinally have the democracy that we’re supposed to ing,” Cohen says, with a laugh. “I end up having to have.” buy lunches for the next week when Jerry and I go out The idea for Stamp Stampede has roots in the with my stamped dollar bills.” Boulder Weekly
As of April 22, Cohen is in fifth place with 214 reported sightings of his stamped bills in 35 states, just behind Greenfield with 220. Greenfield and Cohen started Ben & Jerry’s in 1978, growing from a small ice cream shop in Burlington, Vermont, into a multi-million dollar company the duo sold to Unilever in 2000 for approximately $326 million. Despite their personal success as businessmen, Cohen says he and Greenfield have never operated with a cutthroat businesses mentality that focuses on profit at the expense of people. “That doesn’t give me any sense of joy, personally,” he says. “We have a belief in equity and economic justice and democracy. Maybe those things might be considered quaint, but we believe in them. We believe unless we work to preserve our democracy and return our country to the democracy it’s supposed to be, we’re all going to be nothing more than corporate pawns.” The Stampede partners with other organizations working toward a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Citizens United decision. But doing so is quite the process, requiring a two-thirds vote by both houses of Congress, then ratification by three-fourths of the states. Colorado was one of the first states to voice its opposition to the Citizens United decision, passing Amendment 65 in November 2012 with support of 74 percent of voters. Since then, 18 other states have also passed resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment to address campaign finance reform, as well as 800 other municipalities. The Stampede also claims roughly 200 members of Congress express support of the idea. Additionally, the Stamp Stampede promotes a Voting Rights Advancement Act to combat the rise of voter suppression through recent voter ID laws and other discriminatory policies being passed around the country. Momentum is building, as Stamp Stampede has sold 14,000 stamps in 2018 alone and 4,500 people pledged to stamp 1.9 million bills for the eighth anniversary of Citizens United in January. As the grassroots campaign grows, Cohen remains optimistic about the future no matter what the federal government does to make headlines each day. “You can either be hopeful or throw up your hands and say, ‘We’re screwed,’” Cohen says. “I choose to be hopeful.” April 26, 2018 11
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n Friday, April 20, Boulder Weekly left the Denver Press Club with 27 awards — including 10 first-place honors — from the Society of Professional Journalist’s Top of the Rockies contest. Boulder Weekly competed in the 30,000 to 75,000 circulation category against news media from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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Boulder Weekly took home a first place award in the Special Section category for our 2017 anniversary feature, “Celebrating local people who make the world a better place,” written by editorial staffers Joel Dyer, Matt Cortina, Angela K. Evans and Caitlin Rockett, with contributing writers Amanda Moutinho, John Lehndorff, Sarah Haas, Rob Jackson, Michael J. Casey and Christi Turner. Angela K. Evans took first place in Arts & Entertainment and Food: Enterprise Reporting for a package of pieces that focused on art and immigration. She also won the News Feature category for her three part series “Here and There,” a story that took Evans to Mexico, following a Colorado family that was forced to move their U.S.-citizen children to Mexico after their father was deported. Billy Singleton won for General Business Reporting with his piece about how Utah lost the Outdoor Retailer show because of the state’s opposition to the recently-created Bears Ears National Monument. Writer Betsy Welch won for General Reporting in the Health category for her piece, “At peace with myself,” which looked at how MDMA-assisted psychotherapy could become a prescription treatment for PTSD. Former columnist and current contributing writer
Sarah Haas won in the Science and Technology General Reporting category for “Until our dying day,” a piece that took her in search of the tallest tree on Earth. Editor Joel Dyer took the top prize for News Column for DyerTimes. Dyer also nabbed first place in Political Enterprise Reporting for his story “Why Putin chose Trump to get even with Clinton,” an indepth investigation that broke national news using WikiLeaks and the Panama Papers. Adventure writer Michael Levy won Sports: Columns for his climbing coverage, including a piece on the “quasi-exclusive, semi-secret, pseudo-underground Satan’s Minions Scrambling Club” in Boulder. Josh Schlossberg took home a first place honor in Environmental writing for “Buried in the past,” which looked at rising heath concerns as the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge prepares to open to the public.
Second place Susan Moran took second place in Health: Enterprise Reporting for “Warning: Oil and gas development may be hazardous to your health.” Moran’s piece looked at whether the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is providing the public with accurate information about the known and potential health impacts of oil and gas development. Angela K. Evans won a second place award for Religion General Reporting for “Hate and hope,” about the rise in threats against Muslim, refugee and Jewish communities in the days following Donald Trump’s controversial “travel ban.” In Politics Enterprise Reporting, Matt Cortina took second for “How the West was lost,” a recount of Cortina’s road trip to several national monuments after an executive order from Trump put all 27 national monuments at risk of losing protection. Sara Hass took second place in A&E and Food: Enterprise Reporting for “Yet to be decided,” looking at the walkout at BMoCA and the question it raises about how the City of Boulder supports the arts. Art Director Susan France took a second place
honor in Feature Page Design for her work designing John Lehndorff ’s weekly “Nibbles” column. Boulder Weekly’s entire editorial staff also took the second place slot in the Special Section category for our 2017 Vote Guide. Caitlin Rockett won second place in Education: Enterprise Reporting for “Roots and Shoots,” which took Rockett to the Boulder County jail to speak with inmates about how a program started by Jane Goodall is helping them rehabilitate and move forward. Christi Turner’s “Requiem for a digester,” which looks at the slow death of a $100 million waste-toenergy project in Weld County, placed second in Business Enterprise Reporting. Turner took another second place in General Business Reporting for “Opening doors,” about Blue Star and Eco-Cycle teaming up to employ adults with autism. Ximena Leyte won second place in Legal: Enterprise Reporting for “Immigratoin policies spark debate between Colorado state representatives.”
Third place Matt Cortina won three third place awards: in General Politics Reporting for “COGCC budget in peril;” in Education Enterprise Reporting for “CU sociology department discrimination claims highlight university-wide issues;” and General Education Reporting for “Colorado to give charter schools ‘equal’ share of local public education funds.” Longtime Boulder Weekly sportswriter Tom Winter took third in Sports: Columns for his skiing coverage. Eliza Radeka placed third in Religion General Reporting for “Alcoholics Anonymous struggles to stay relevant as secular programs gain momentum.” Caitlin Rockett, in A&E and Food: Single Story, won third for her critiques on local dance troupes. And Josh Schlossberg took third in the Science and Technology: General Reporting category for “Will Colorado communities adapt to climate-driven wildfire?” Congratulations to all our winners and special thanks to our readers, who keep us doing what we do.
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news Dodging a bullet... for now Why keeping the Legal Orientation Program alive is so important by Angela K. Evans
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n November 2016, Jose (a pseudonym) found himself at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract detention facility in Aurora. He had been living in the U.S. since 2002, first in Iowa, where he met his wife, a U.S. citizen, and later in Arizona. The couple has two young daughters together. Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons
On April 25, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a DOJ decision to suspend the Legal Orientation Program, just five days before funding was to be terminated.
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Jose had never interacted with federal authorities before. But in July 2016, he was taken into ICE custody after being arrested by local police. A few months later, he was transferred to the Aurora facility because there was no longer enough space in the Arizona detention center where he was being held. “I was very scared of not seeing my children again and not being able to stay here (in the country),” he says, via an interpreter. “I just sat around thinking about what was going to happen, if they were going to let me stay or not. I didn’t know what to do and I looked for a lawyer
but I couldn’t hire one.” Then, attorneys with Rocky Mountain Immigration Advocacy Network (RMIAN) came to the detention facility, and Jose attended the Legal Orientation Program (LOP), a federally funded information session that aquaints people in civil immigration detention with their rights as they move through immigration court proceedings. Through LOP, Jose connected with a pro bono lawyer, who explained he could be eligible for deportation relief, given his family situation. “It was helpful. They explained bond and how I could get out,” Jose says. “I was very thankful because through the lawyer I was able to stay here with my family.” Until Wednesday afternoon, April 25, the program that helped Jose was on life support. Earlier in the month, the Department of Justice announced its intention to suspend funding as of April 30 without any prior warning. But just as suddenly, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed his position this week and will allow LOP to remain in place while the program is audited. That’s good and important news for those who need and administer this vital program. “It provides what is the fundamental underpinning of our country and our legal system, which is: there should be equal access to justice for everyone,” says Mekela Goehring, executive director of RMIAN. “And there (are) just fundamental fairness considerations in terms of providing people info and the tools to be able to make these decisions.” Distributed through the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, the federal government allots roughly $8 million a year to 19 different nonprofits around the country, working in 37 immigration detention facilities and serving approximately 53,000 people a year. Boulder Weekly
THE LEGAL ORIENTATION PROGRAM “PROVIDES WHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL UNDERPINNING OF OUR COUNTRY AND OUR LEGAL SYSTEM, WHICH IS: THERE SHOULD BE EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR EVERYONE.” — MEKELA GOEHRING, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY NETWORK
“The Department of Justice’s announcement today (April 25) that it will reinstate the Legal Orientation Program is the right and just decision for a program that never should have been threatened in the first place,” Goerhing says. “The relentless advocacy and awareness-raising done by RMIAN’s clients, supporters, staff members, members of the media and elected representatives in Colorado who spoke out to save the Legal Orientation Program showed the necessity and power of this work for individuals ensnared in civil immigration detention.” LOP funds are dispersed monthly and represent about 20 percent of RMIAN’s annual budget, or a total of $240,000. The Colorado nonprofit was one of the first six sites to launch pilot LOP projects under President George W. Bush in 2003. “It was started really as an innovative model to both promote immigration court efficiency as well as provide some really fundamental protections for people in detention who are going through immigration court proceedings,” Goehring says. Five afternoons a week, RMIAN lawyers and staff experts provide the hour-long legal trainings at the Aurora facility, serving more than 2,000 individuals each year. All of the lawyers working with RMIAN are bilingual in Spanish and English, and have access to telephonic interpretation for people with other language needs. RMIAN also works on an individual basis with detainees, helping them gather appropriate information for their cases. “The LOP has really been a lifeline for the vast majority of individuals going through these proceedings,” Goehring says. “The information and the value of that information on the individuals who are in detention really can’t be overstated. Because for the majority of them, had they not had the opportunity to talk to a RMIAN attorney and get this information, they may have simply accepted a deportation order without having access to these legal protections that operate under our existing immigration law.” Through the program, RMIAN lawyers have helped victims of crime and human trafficking avert deportation, as well as people with legal permanent residency and other factors, like asylum and humanitarian protections, which allow them to stay under existing immigration law. They’ve also helped people realize when they don’t have a case and there is no legal remedy for them to remain in the country. In certain cases, RMIAN also connects people in detention with pro bono lawyers who represent them in court. Classified as civil cases, and not criminal, immigrants facing deportation don’t have the right to a court appointed attorney, and in many cases LOP provides the only legal aid they may ever receive. Boulder Weekly
Goehring says 91 percent of people at the Aurora facility will not have an attorney heading into their hearings. “Immigration law cases are some of the most complex legal proceedings both procedurally and substantively,” Goehring says. “The types of cases that individuals are fighting for and litigating are some of the highest stakes cases that an individual may encounter in their life. A loss may mean deportation or banishment from a country where they’ve lived their entire life; it may mean a return to a country that they fled because of persecution or other harm; It may mean separation from family members.” Immigration courts are severely backlogged around the country, and Colorado has the longest wait-time in the nation at an average of 1,058 days — almost three years. A 2012 review of the LOP found the program saved the federal government almost $18 million a year, since detainees who went through the program typically spent an average of six fewer days in detention. Additionally, a 2017 case study of the immigration court system commissioned by the federal government found that better access to attorneys helps shorten delays in the court system and the federal government should consider expanding LOP in response. In an email to Boulder Weekly prior to Session’s April 25 announcement, a DOJ official said: “LOP has been paused in order to undertake a review of the program, which has not been completed for more than five years. As this program costs taxpayers $6 million per year, we believe that audits of this nature should occur more frequently than every half of a decade.” Despite the cost-reduction facts and Sessions’ promise to slash the backlog in half by 2020, the DOJ could still suspend the program following the audit. Colorado legislators were quick to criticize the original decision to suspend the program, calling on the DOJ to conduct its evaluation while continuing to fund the LOP. In a letter to Sessions, Rep. Jared Polis states, “To suspend this program under the auspices of conducting further evaluation is short-sighted and would destroy an indisputably effective program that has been successfully operating for the last 15 years.” On April 18, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet signed onto a letter to the DOJ with 21 other senators demanding funding for LOP to remain in place. A spokesperson for the Senator says, “[Bennet] believes that suspending the Legal Orientation Program will undermine due process for Coloradans who otherwise don’t have access to essential information as they prepare to navigate the immigration court system. While he supports oversight of the program so that it continues to operate efficiently, he doesn’t
believe it has to be suspended while the review is ongoing.” Following its announced suspension, Bennet called on the DOJ to restart the program that he claims has been proven to save taxpayer money, while also guaranteeing due process for a vulnerable sector of the population and helping to reduce the backlogs in immigration court. It appears these congressional pleas have had an impact on Sessions and the DOJ, at least for now. In a Senate subcomittee meeting on April 25, Sessions explained his decision to keep LOP intact: “I recognize, however, that the Committee has spoken on this matter, and, out of deference to the Committee, I have ordered there be no pause while that review is conducted. I look forward to evaluating the findings and will be in communication with the Committee when they are available.” Like many things during the Trump administration, the future of the program, the nonprofits who administer it and the people in detention who so badly need it, is uncertain. “I think it goes without saying, that if you completely shut this program down, a program that has been operating for the last 15 years as a national network, to even think about restarting it is going to require such a huge and significant amount of resources,” Goehring says. “We must do everything we can to ensure this vital lifeline continues well into the future.” RMIAN is currently strategizing what it will do to keep providing legal services at the Aurora facilities should LOP funding ultimately be suspended. It has been one year since Jose was released from immigration detention and was reunited with his family in Arizona. After attending LOP at the Aurora facility, and with the help of a pro bono attorney, Jose was able to prove that his deportation would cause extreme and unusual hardship to a family member who is a citizen, since his wife is disabled and he is the primary caregiver for both her and their daughters. “It would have been very difficult for me to know what to do,” without the lawyer’s help, Jose says. “I want to thank [RMIAN] for helping me with my case.” Now a lawful permanent resident, Jose walks through life with more confidence, no longer afraid to leave the house for fear of getting picked up by immigration officials. He is, however, troubled by the potential future loss of the Legal Orientation Program and what that would mean for other immigrants. “It’s not right because there are many people who are detained that need those services,” he says. “It’s not right for the government to take away the help that the people need, the same help that I got.” April 26, 2018 15
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our miles from the launch pad, standing on the roof of the 44-story vehicle assembly building where NASA constructed the space shuttles, I hold my breath during the final seconds of the countdown. SpaceX is about to launch NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into a highly elliptical orbit between the Earth and the moon, a stable vantage point for it to scan 85 percent of the sky over the next two years. For the past several days, NASA scientists have been telling the other journalists on this rooftop that TESS will search for planets around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky. Although the refrigerator-sized satellite will certainly find the closest neighbors to our solar system, it will do much more to probe the complex life stories of stars like our sun. I am attending the launch as a journalist because my efforts to attend as a scientist were unsuccessful. Aside from the core science team based at
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the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center (GSFC) in Maryland, only a handful of astronomers from across the country were invited to attend. The VIP list also includes some high-ranking representatives of a large international collaboration that I work with, and a small group of guest investigators whose proposals for exploiting the TESS observations were selected for funding. In early March I applied for media accreditation, and in early April I learned that I’m on the list. A few days after making last-minute travel arrangements, I am in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The TESS mission will monitor the brightness of 200,000 stars all over the sky, looking for periodic dimming Boulder Weekly
“FROM AN EXOPLANET perspective, whether a planet is habitable or not depends a lot on its star.”
from planets that pass in front of their star (see “Prospecting nearby worlds,” Boulder Weekly, Jan. 11, 2018). Planetary systems are oriented randomly in space, so even if every star has planets only a small fraction will reveal their existence by casting a shadow in our direction. By design, more than 95 percent of the targets that TESS monitors will show no evidence of planetary systems, but they will provide a rich set of observations for understanding how stars change as they grow older. “There’s really a huge potential for additional science,” says Stephen Rinehart, project scientist for TESS at the GSFC. “From an exoplanet perspective, whether a planet is habitable or not depends a lot on its star. If we don’t understand the star very well, then we’re very limited in what we can understand about the planet.” In an effort to improve their understanding of the target stars, the TESS mission forged a collaboration with an international team called the TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium (TASC). Led by scientists in Denmark, but with the participation of astronomers around the globe, TASC exploits a subtle analysis method called asteroseismology to characterize the sizes and ages of stars and their planetary systems. The arrangement is good for the mission because it can benefit from the work of hundreds of scientists at no cost to NASA. It’s good for the international team members because they can use this relationship with the mission to justify financial support from their home countries. “It’s a friendly relationship, and a good collaboration going forward,” Rinehart notes. “I think they’re going to have a lot of fun with the data too.” Asteroseismology works by analyzing natural brightness variations in stars like the sun, which are caused by low frequency sound waves created near their surfaces. Sun-like stars genBoulder Weekly
erate energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium deep in their cores, which is transported out toward the surface where it is radiated away. Turbulent boiling motions in the outermost regions generate sound waves that travel through the star and back to the surface, analogous to the seismic waves generated inside our planet during an earthquake. In the case of stars, these sound waves cause periodic modulations in brightness at the surface. The frequency of the waves reveals the size of the object, for the same reason that a cello sounds different from a violin. The speed of the sound waves also depends on the composition of the material that they travel through; because stars convert hydrogen into helium over their lifetimes, it’s also possible to infer their ages. The brightness measurements made by TESS will also allow astronomers to estimate the rotation rates and overall level of magnetic activity in the stars, two essential ingredients in the generation of harmful flares that could make otherwise habitable planets less conducive to the development of life. The countdown at Cape Canaveral continues, and I am awestruck as the Falcon-9 rocket begins to rise gently into the Florida sky. Thirty seconds later, the deep rumble of the engine finally reaches the rooftop where I am standing, sending its own seismic waves through the massive building beneath me. The evening news will herald this moment as the beginning of a search for nearby worlds, but most of what TESS actually achieves will be much more interesting and textured than the one-dimensional picture of exoplanet discovery that captures the public’s imagination. Travis Metcalfe is a researcher and science communicator based in Boulder. With support from several technology companies, he runs a nonprofit adopt-astar program to fund astronomy research.
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here’s an invasion going on down the middle of the U.S., as America’s arid West advances eastward. Imperceptibly, decades of climate change have shifted the natural boundary between the dry West and the fertile farmlands of the eastern states by 140 miles, according to a new study by U.S. scientists. In effect, what was once marked by the 100th meridian is now at 98 degrees of longitude. The 100th meridian is one of those astronomically determined lines that emerge from what the researchers call “psychogeography.” Just as the historic 38th parallel separates the hostile states of North and South Korea, the Mason-Dixon line marks a notional but blood-stained boundary between the northern states and the American South, and the Greenwich meridian formally replaced the Paris meridian as the notional ground zero for the measure of universal time, so too has the 100th meridian entered U.S. consciousness. It was first cited 140 years ago, when a pioneer geologist and surveyor identified a divide running from north to south between land that received ample rainfall, and soils in the so-called rain-shadow of the Rockies that could be classed as arid. And, conveniently, it could be measured as 100 degrees west of Greenwich in the U.K., the starting point for lines of longitude. In two papers in the journal Earth Interactions, researchers have taken a
closer look at the reality of this historic divide and the changing nature of the U.S. landscape as a consequence of climate change driven by ever-greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in response to ever-more profligate human use of fossil fuels. They confirm that in the 140 years since the first observation of that divide, the line through North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas has shifted east by 140 miles: in Texas, this is a shift from Abilene to Fort Worth. In 1878, the geologist John Wesley Powell noted the transformation observed as he crossed a northsouth band of terrain in the U.S. “On the east, luxuriant growth of grass is seen, and the gaudy flowers of the order Compositae make the prairie landscape beautiful. “Passing westward, species after species of luxuriant grass and brilliant flowering plants disappear; the
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Left: Kathy Karlo of NMLFF works her way up a climb. Below: Madeline Sorkin climbs on Longs Peak in the short film The Honeymoon is Over.
t’s just after 6 a.m. and Aisha Weinhold is sitting at her desk with a cup of coffee. She looks out the kind of window that would make any office-bound worker swoon: nearly floor to ceiling, wider than arm’s reach, with Aspen Mountain neatly framed and its ski runs in plain view. The Roaring Fork River cuts through the lower righthand corner of the scene. When you’re on the indoor side of outdoor business, this isn’t a bad gig. NPR’s Up First credits fade as Weinhold flips through a hardcover planner. As founder and executive director of the largest female-focused adventure film festival in the world, no day looks quite the same. Most mornings, like today, she scrolls through other
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pointment and confliction that I still feel today,” Weinhold says. In the same vein as 5Point, other premier outdoor industry film festivals, like Banff Mountain Film Festival and Telluride Mountainfilm, have traditionally let narratives of white men dominate the screen, effectively passing the stories of nonmale, non-white people under the public’s radar. “The men on the screen are incredible athletes and amazing characters,” Weinhold says, “but I remember leaving every year and thinking that if I wanted that in my life, I would have to marry into it. No Man’s Land was born from a deep void that no one else was filling, so I decided to do it. I knew that I couldn’t be the only one who was feeling like my story was so grossly underrepresented.” In the past three years, NMLFF has regularly sold out venues across the country, hosted its own multiday flagship festival in Carbondale each fall, and toured internationally. Next week, select films from NMLFF will be screened at Neptune Mountaineering, and Skye Habberfield, the store’s marketing manager, has long been excited about bringing NMLFF to Boulder. “Neptune has classically brought in all the oldtimers and legends of the sport,” he says. “It’s really neat to see a film festival not [only] focused on women, [but also] on the up-and-coming women in sports.” As the tour growth and full houses indicate, response from the public has been resoundingly positive. Initial logistical kinks of orchestrating a film festival have largely smoothed out — no more lastminute scrambling for rental auditorium chairs or scheduling mishap nightmares — as the festival grows. But the challenges have changed. “Our newer hurdles feel stickier,” Weinhold says. “A major challenge that we have been working to address is diversity.” Now that the films tour the globe, “choosing films Boulder Weekly
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that speak to a stars in her own surfing film that’s broader audience is included in the imperative,” she NMLFF collection, catches a wave. explains. “As soon as I felt like we were at a place only difference is all where we had the base jumpers and enough films fearock climbers and turing women, I surfers featured in the realized that the Courtesy of Aisha Weinhold films are female. In majority of the time her experience, on the big screen Weinhold says, was taken up by the “People hear ‘women’ same kind of and they look down, women: white, they become distractstraight and 25-35.” ed, or they quickly Weinhold hand over a card and doesn’t want to fall say the classic line of, into the same trap ‘I love what you guys the prior generaare doing, let’s be in tion dug itself into, touch.’” even if it’s a trap Weinhold won’t let made and run by these attitudes slow women. down NMLFF, but “While we continually working always have some against the current of outliers, we are now the dominating indusworking to make try is taxing. “We’ve all of our proalso been told that our gramming a colplatform is nothing lection of outliers. ON THE BILL: No Aisha Weinhold, Man’s Land Film more than a trend, Over the last few NMLFF’s founder, Festival. 6 p.m. Friday, grew up adventhat we came in at the years, more conMay 4. Neptune turing outdoors Mountaineering, 633 right time and we got tent has been proand now works South Broadway St., to get women lucky,” she says. “I duced featuring Unit A. neptunemounfeatured on the taineering.com. started No Man’s women of color big screen. Land because I wantand women ed to see more women beyond the ages getting the respect that they deserve of 18-30. This year we are looking within and beyond the big screen. The for content that speaks to another NMLFF team continues on today definition of woman. We are looking because we believe that we have created for films that speak to the trans and a powerful avenue for new conversation, LGBTQ movement. Our obstacles new media, new ideas and ultimately are changing on the daily, but ultimately we want anyone who loves a change.” woman, knows a woman or feels like sentation by Weinhold, the Neptune In 10 years, Weinhold says, “we a woman to feel at home and repreMountaineering program will benefit hope NMLFF won’t need to exist and sented at No Man’s Land.” three female-focused adventure organian all-female adventure film festival Weinhold wants to be an example zations: She Jumps, Women’s will be a nicety, nothing more than an to the rest of the industry, and by Wilderness and Camber Outdoors. apologetic glance back at a stagnant extension to all of society — celebrat“It’s not something we’ve really and troubled past.” ing outliers is not just a trend, it’s done before, and we’re really pumped Which is why, at her home, on her meaningful work that resonates with on it in that regard,” Habberfield says. desk, Weinhold moves between planBut not everyone in the industry large audiences. “We are a growing and ners and journals with colored pens has been so supportive of NMLFF and evolving space in the outdoor industhat sit below her window to the outtry,” she says. “The films that our plat- its mission. side world. Her skis lean against the “I am tired of explaining why it’s form (is) based upon are but a shadow side door. She could be riding down important to have women on the big of the tremendous intensity, passion, the slopes that rise before her eyes, screen and to have their accomplishgrit, genius and drive that all women but she types away excitedly, another ments widely shared,” Weinhold says. “I idea hitting the page. How will the carry. Beyond the big screen is where am tired of hearing sponsors say, they the magic really happens.” next puzzle piece fit to transform and ‘believe in the cause,’ but then put no As Kathy Karlo, NMLFF’s tour influence the next generation of action behind it. I think it is pretty safe manager and event coordinator, puts it, adventure athletes? to say that most people believe in ‘the “Our goal is to empower our audiences Who knows, a present-day incarcause.’ The cause being... women?” and challenge them to redefine feminate of eight-year-old Weinhold The films included in NMLFF ninity in adventure, as well as their might see the next NMLFF screening. confidently stand beside those shown at Maybe she’ll find that role model daily lives.” Banff, Mountainfilm and 5Point — the Weinhold always missed. In addition to the films and a preBoulder Weekly
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BMoCA installation features the experiences of Boulder County DACA recipients by Angela K. Evans
through the courts. At the same time, Congress has failed to find consensus on immigration reform and pass legislation to protect these young people. “With the recent developments that have been happening at the federal level and the quandary that these involuntary childhood immigrants are facing these days, ... we felt it was an opportunity for us to present their perspectives and be a platform to raise awareness about their issues,” says BMoCA Executive Director David Dadone. “And that’s where we as a contemporary art museum can really make an impact in our community and beyond — by presenting the facts and their point of view through an installation and art performance and present them to the community.” I am Here was commissioned by BMoCA as part of its Present Box exhibition series, which, since
2011, has transformed the museum’s small lobby a few Work Won’t Kill You: I am Here is an times a year into a installation/ piece of performance performance art piece by Patty Ortiz art. that employs DACA It’s fifth in Ortiz’ recipients while sharing their stories. exhibition series Work Won’t Kill You, inspired by a quote her father often said: “Work won’t kill you, laziness will.” “Work can be anything; it’s really just exerting some kind of force forward,” Ortiz says. “Work is the great unifier.” In all of her installation work, Ortiz hires locals to engage in the project. In Syracuse, New York, she gathered unemployed and retired men living in poverty to systematically examine images from their community in a work of forensic art. In San Diego, she employed workers to catalog the commercial Boulder Weekly
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exchanges taking place every day in a retail corridor. and my sister to give us a better life.” “Working together, it becomes this community Every minute the video cuts to a slow moving and there does become this connection and relahand traveling from the left of the screen toward a tionship that we have now from all of the time we potted plant sitting on the right. Eventually the spent together,” she says. “That’s part of the piece fingers grasps the stem, right beneath the flowers, for me.” in a tight fist, uprooting it in one swift jerk as soil For I am Here, Ortiz has hired nine DACA recip- flies out of the pot in slow motion. ients who grew up in Boulder County, ranging in age “My feeling was this idea of pulling a plant out of from 18-27, to care for the potted a pot, out of the ground, and Courtesy of BMoCA plants in the museum’s lobby. not only seeing the roots being Ortiz designed bright, flowered pulled away from [the soil] but jumpsuits — uniforms, if you will also the hole that is left,” Ortiz — for the young people to wear says. as they work. Starting with this initial “They will make sure the concept, Ortiz gathered the plants are growing and water the group around the museum’s flowers,” Ortiz says. “The other conference table to share their thing they can do, which I think experiences. For some, it was the is more exciting, is they get to first time they had ever talked arrange the flowers any way they publicly about their status. want. I’ll arrange them first and “I never really shared my then after that it’s up to them. story until now,” says Itzel, 27, a DACA recipient who was raised They can arrange it by color, they in Boulder and heard about the can arrange it by kind, they can arrange it by design. It’s really up Artist Patty Ortiz becomes “a conduit” exhibit through her younger by which DACA recipients share their brother. Others learned about it to them.” stories. from a teacher at school or While the workers arrange through their involvement with pots and care for the flowers, a the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. projected video will loop behind them. A collage of moving flowers flashes on the screen with a voiceover None of the nine young people had ever met before, of the students sharing their stories. but their commonalities quickly became apparent as “I remember it being wet because we had to cross they discussed how DACA has affected them. through the river,” one girl says. “I was wearing these “Everything people were saying, I could relate to,” shoes that they made over there that smell like oranges.” says Wendy, 21, a student at Front Range “I do not have any memories before I came to the Community College. United States,” someone else adds. “I want to repay “It’s the feeling of knowing that you’re not alone, my parents for all their sacrifices they’ve done for me that there are other people with you,” says Miguel, Boulder Weekly
18, and a student at Boulder High. ON THE BILL: Work “What really strikes Won’t Kill You: I Am Here by Patty Ortiz. BMoCA me is how [Ortiz] is front lobby. 1750 13th St., giving a voice to the Boulder. Through May 6. DACA recipients Panel discussion with DACA recipients. 6 p.m. through her piece,” Wednesday, May 2, Dadone says. BMoCA event space. “Although she is the artist, she is giving them an opportunity to tell their story.” While they are working, Ortiz has set boundaries for interactions: The young people can’t associate with anyone coming through the museum. They can’t answer questions or talk to museum staff. They are performing in a sense and must arrange and water plants in silence. They can also sit and rest on a few benches included in the space. “What I liked about that is a lot of them have said that they have had to pretty much be invisible to authorities, to a lot of people, and so to me this is very representative of that,” Ortiz says. “I become the conduit by which these guys speak,” she continues. “But it’s art, it’s not a political statement. I stay away from the political stuff they talk about to make it more about their human experience.” Or at least she tries to, as it’s nearly impossible to deny how current federal policies and anti-immigrant rhetoric has affected their experiences. And the young people were integral in choosing the content for the video. All in all, I am Here gives them something to do in the face of uncertainty. “Our voices are being heard,” Miguel says, as he fills the pot with soil around a white daisy, waters it and places it in the sunshine to grow. April 26 , 2018 25
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and film production logistics and the pressures of a hometown, three-night gig presenting new and nominally controversial music, it was at least over. “Yeah, three very, very intense days. Everything has been building up to this moment. A hometown show, three nights, arguably the greatest venue in the world, and you’re filming it too. So the pressure couldn’t be any greater,” Wilson says. “And it’s my name on the ticket, on the marquis. Everything is down to me. So yeah, I’m glad it was a success.” Discussing his latest release To The Bone, inevitably led Wilson into discourse on musical identity and the struggles (or triumphs) of managing one’s artistic personality in a world cluttered with faces and voices and brands bleeding into each other, competing for attention and allegiance. Wilson prepped his listeners last spring and early summer that this would be a different kind of record, a more “pop” record than his fans had come to expect from him, certainly
more so than 2015’s shaded and cerebral Hand.Cannot.Erase. “Pop” is not a label commonly associated with Wilson’s music, which has trended distinctly toward a progressive, often darkly aggro veneer; long compositions, darker subject matter, alternately rageful and somber, calculating and feral. To The Bone saw its release in August, and while Wilson didn’t abandoned his mission to tackle deeper subject matter (fake news/disinformation on the title track, Europe’s refugee crisis in “Refuge,” misplaced hope in politics in “The Same Asylum As Before,” suicidal extremists on “Detonation”), he did create a tighter record, more direct and instrumentally focused. And in the mix comes the sixth track on the program, “Permanating,” a helium-lofted Style Council/Pet Shop Boys mashup with a staccato piano figure, double-time percussion chassis and soaring vocal chorus about celebrating the moment because life is short but totally awesome so enjoy it with your Boulder Weekly
25% OFF the purchase friends. It’s a sheer wonder, a mirrorball of euphoria, and, by the way, what the hell is it doing on a Steven Wilson record? “The most popular song every night in the show. Without question,” Wilson insists. “And what I take away from that is that, although a lot of rock fans have a kind of immediate, negative response to the idea of a pop song, actually, at the end of the day, everyone can enjoy a catchy, great pop song.” For the stalwart faithful who have held up Wilson as the bearer of the latter-day prog torch, the inheritor of Floydian/Frippian DNA, “Permanating” seems to have been received as, at best, an anomaly, or at worst, a bit of a troll. Wilson is OK with that. “See, the kind of people who say those kinds of things are the people who I think need to be upset anyway. The idea that I make ‘generic’ music is completely alien to me. I never, ever, said that I play a particular kind of music. “I grew up in a house where my parents introduced me very early on to fantastic pop music — Abba, the Bee Gees, the Carpenters — at the same time they would introduce me to Dark Side of the Moon. That was always part of my DNA.” Wilson also reached out for lyrical help on a couple of tunes, notably the opening track “To The Bone,” to The Bard of Swindon, XTC founder Andy Partridge. Hold on, down and down and down and down/We’re melting down their throne/Oh, own through every superstition/Virgin, whore, and crone/Hold on, down through all the fear gods/To the very truth alone/Oh, down and down, we’re going to the bone “I grew up listening to XTC, and Andy is one of my heroes. About five years ago, I got the privilege to work on a project, which is still ongoing, to remix the whole XTC catalog. We’ve done five so far, and we’re averaging about one a year. So I’ve gotten to know him very well,” Wilson says. “And this song, ‘To The Bone’, I knew it had to be a little more, shall we say, ‘political,’ with a capital P, literally about politics, the whole Trump thing and the Brexit thing, and it was not something I felt very comfortable myself writing about. I guess I’m better at writing about characters and these sorts of inner monologues and short stories about characters. And Andy is better at dealing with these big, global kinds of issues.” Elsewhere on this offering, we were not the first to notice that “Pariah,” a duet Wilson sings with Boulder Weekly
Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb, bears theAmerica aren’t interested in rock matic and aesthetic resonance to Peter music. I think it’s all urban music, and Gabriel’s duet with Kate Bush, “Don’t hip hop.” Give Up,” from Gabriel’s So album, So if the idea of “rock star” is a now well past 30 years old. fading or anachronistic paradigm on “What I loved about So was that it these shores, the underlying theme was an unashamedly direct, main— be bigger in image than in substream record, but without losing any stance — is undoubtedly alive and of the personality, any of the sense of well. A closing question on whether experimentation and any of the charCamilla should assume the title of acter of the artist in question,” Wilson Queen, (or Queen-consort, or says. “That’s a really hard thing to pull Duchess, or some other stately invesoff, and to me, that’s kind of what I titure) when Charles assumes the was trying to do with To The Bone. throne — cheerfully arcane matters “I suppose ‘Don’t to Americans, but of Camila Jurado Give Up’ was probably some interest and disin my mind, consciously pute among a segment or subconsciously, but of the British people actually what was prob— unleashed the subably more in my mind ject we both danced was ‘Woman in Chains,’ around for 30 minutes. the Tears for Fears duet While Wilson himwith Roland Orzabal self is aggressively and Oleta Adams, one indifferent to Camilla’s of these classic female/ future title (“The first male duets, with a sense thing that comes to of empowerment to it.” mind is, could I really As Wilson prepared give a shit. I have had to bring his current very little interest in campaign to the U.S., the Royal Family pretty we asked if he sensed a much my whole life”), different vibe between he’s actually a bit symAmerican, U.K. and pathetic to her handiEuropean audiences. In cap in broadly capturON THE BILL: An Evening With Steven some ways, Wilson is ing the hearts of the Wilson. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, still regarded as an British people. And if May 5, Ogden Theatre underground artist, prothe question seemed 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, ogdentheatre. ducing (in the main) needlessly patronizing com. Tickets are $36.50 defiantly non-commer(it wasn’t meant to be cial music, — some Americans, “Permanating” notwithespecially amateur Anglophiles like this reporter, retain standing, yet has achieved a stature an enduring curiosity about the that sells out the Royal Albert. English monarchy) Wilson turned it But America? on its head. “One of the things that’s really “Listen, if Donald Trump can be kind of difficult for me to get to grips president, than anybody can be anywith is how the country that was for thing.” so long the home of rock music, that Yep, he went there. was the place everybody went to tour, “Maybe it started in the Ronald all the rock bands wanted to make it Reagan days... We live in an age huge in America, be No. 1 in where anybody can be anything. You America, conquer that territory, the home of rock ‘n’ roll music, how, argu- have to understand the nature of celebrity. And how to work it. I think ably, it’s the country that has now the that’s what it is. It’s the cult of perleast interest in rock music, and is the sonality. And someone like Donald most resistant to it,” Wilson says. Trump — whatever I may think of “And that’s happened in a relahim and of his being president, and tively short space of time. Obviously, I’m careful not to say one way or the someone like myself, that’s very disother — he is someone who knows appointing. Clearly, I come from a how to effectively use the cult of perrock music tradition, and there are sonality. And that in itself is genius. places in the world — for example, “I think Camilla is a bit uncomLatin America — that still love rock fortable with it all.” music. Does Steven Wilson comfortably “But when I come to America, I bear his own celebrity? have a hunch I’m going to be playing “Obviously not, because I’ve not ... to predominately an older audience. I don’t think there will be many young been...” He stops to gather his thoughts. people there, and I think that’s partly “No. No, I don’t.” down to the fact that young people in
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a r t s & culture CU Eklund Opera melds Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ with ‘Game of Thrones’ by Peter Alexander
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andel’s opera Ariodante is as old as 1516, when its story was first recorded, and as new as today. Its theme, the linchpin of many operas, is timeless: a man being believed before a woman. “#MeToo, right?” Leigh Homan, the director of CU’s Eklund Opera Program, says. “This is so relevant.” The next CU opera production, Ariodante will be presented April 26-29 in the intimate Music Theatre. Holman is the stage director, and Zachary Carrettin, director of the Boulder Bach Festival, will conduct the orchestra and a cast of CU students. For a Baroque opera, the plot is fairly simple; a human drama with no divine intervention and no magic. The scheming Polinesso wants to marry princess Ginevra in
ON THE BILL: Ariodante by George Frideric Handel, performed by CU Eklund Opera Program. Zachary Carrettin, conductor; Leigh Holman, stage director. 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, April 26-28; 2 p.m. Sunday, April 29, Music Theatre, Imig Music Building, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Tickets: cupresents.org/event/1335/ cu-opera/ariodante/
This is not the first time Holman has based an old opera on a new television drama: two years ago she directed Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea in the style of House of Cards. This updating works because Baroque operas are based on classical literature and mythology, which express basic human themes: love, jealousy, honor, deception and lust for power. Those timeless themes also underlie the modern dramas. Relevance is only one challenge of Baroque opera. Aspects of the musical style can be difficult for modern audiences and performers alike. For example, Ariodante, like most Baroque operatic heroes, was written for a castrato and will be sung by female sopranos. This challenges the audience to recognize the heroic characters, but even more so, it challenges the singers, as castratos could sing long phrases with great force. Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado Further, Baroque opera concentrates almost entirely on the expression of feelings rather than on action. The drama has a start-stop quality, with action happening quickly in recitative and then stopping completely for an emotional aria. In Ariodante, an attempted assassination happens in a matter of seconds, and then the characters pause to reflect on action that the audience could easily miss. “We open that scene up in our production,” Holman says. “We try to make [the action] more apparent.” In order to do that, she and Carrettin go so far as to move some music around, and they have made other modificatiosn to serve the drama. “There is freedom in Baroque music,” Carrettin says. “We’re all trying to be practical musicians who can tell the story in an inspired way.” Rather than aiming for a strict notion of historical authenticity, he talks about “Real Authentic Practice” (RAP). “What’s more interesting to me than citing a treatise is to look at the RAP of the time,” he says. “Being practical is more important than a citation.” order to gain the throne of Scotland, Then there is the matter of style: Baroque music but Ginevra and her father, the King, can be difficult for singers brought up in a different Soprano Maureen Bailey as Ginevra are celebrating her engagement to era. Among the subjects that Carrettin has dis(left), mezzo-soprano Ariodante. With the help of Dalinda, a cussed with the singers are ornamentation, the way Claire MacCahan as Ariodante (middle) lady-in-waiting, Polinesso frames arias are often based on gavottes, sicilianos, saraand baritone Steven Ginevra for infidelity. The King canbands and other dances of the time, and how details Groth as Polinesso (right). cels the wedding and renounces his in the music reveal character. daughter. The role of Ariodante is particularly challeng“It says a lot that they believe the ing, with arias that are spectacularly virtuosic, even male, who’s not in the royal family, over the princess,” Carretin for castrato roles, but Carrettin is not taking it easy on the says. But all is not lost: Ariodante, who is thought to have singers. “Some of our tempos are faster than any of the killed himself in despair, returns in time to implicate Baroque productions that one can find,” he says. ”There are Polinesso. The latter is killed in a duel, and the opera ends no concessions.” with the villain vanquished and the true lovers wed. The result? “Some of the most brilliant, expressive and To make the story more accessible to modern audiences, virtuosic coloratura I’ve heard.” Holman based the production on Game of Thrones. “I came to It is the beauty of the music that keeps Handel popular [this concept] because my students talk about this show a lot,” today, more than 250 years after his death, and Ariodante, Holman says. “Students were saying, ‘How can you be an Holman and Carrettin believe, is as good as anything he wrote. opera director and not watch Game of Thrones? It’s so epic!’ “You’d be hard-pressed to find better music in any “It’s like grand opera just to watch it. So Game of Thrones Handel, anywhere,” Carrettin says. “It probably has a clicked for me. It’s relevant to [the students], it’s relevant to dozen of the greatest arias of the early 18th century in our audiences.” one opera.” Boulder Weekly
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Various times through April 28, Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S.-Mexico border, El Mar La Mar weaves together harrowing oral histories from the area with hand-processed 16mm images of flora, fauna and items left behind by travelers. Subjects speak of intense, mythic experiences in the desert. A sonically rich soundtrack adds to the eerie atmosphere as the call of birds and other nocturnal noises invisibly populate the austere landscape. Emerging from the ethos of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, J.P. Sniadecki’s attentive documentary approach mixes perfectly with Joshua Bonnetta’s meditations on the materiality of film. Together, they’ve created an experience of the border region like nothing you’ve seen, heard or felt before.
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INTO THE WOODS: A FUNDRAISER FOR THE CATAMOUNTS. 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, The Studio Boulder, 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit A2, Boulder.
MOTHER HOUSE GALA: FARM DINNER + AUCTION. 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, The Gatehouse at Lionsgate Event Center, 1055 S. 112th St., Lafayette. Enjoy a farm-fresh dinner, provided by Blackbelly Catering, at the Mother House Gala. After you eat, work those calories off with an evening of dancing with live music from The Tyler Walker Band. Place bids in the silent auction for a chance to win amazing prizes like five nights at Star Meadows Ranch in Montana, seven nights at Trailhead Lodge in Steamboat Springs, or dinner for a year in one of your favorite Boulder restaurants. Proceeds from this event go to support Mother House programs throughout the year. Mother House provides a safe haven for pregnant women who are at risk. Tickets available at mother-house.ejoinme.org/registration2018.
Don something fanciful, fantastical or flannel and join The Catamounts for a delightful evening of fundraising in support of the company’s 2018-19 season. This night of fun will help The Catamounts fund 150 young Pixabay artists in the process of creating and performing their own original plays, and bring imaginative new American plays to Boulder theater lovers. Get your palm read, sip woodland-inspired cocktails to the tunes of strolling musicians, nibble delicious food and s’mores for dessert, dance to a DJ and get your photo taken in an Airstream photo booth. Plus, bid on auction items to benefit The Catamounts’ award-winning and critically acclaimed artistic, educational and community endeavors. Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com/event/3354429.
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Thursday, April 26 Music The Brothers Comatose. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Erika Wennerstrom. 7 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Free Range Marmot. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Glen Phillips. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Mad Dog Duo featuring Jenn Cleary. 6 p.m. Brewmented, 900 S. Hover St., Unit C, Longmont, 720-699-0214. Marian Hill — with Michl. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax, Denver, 303-832-1874.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26 WILD Summit: Women Inspiring Leadership Development. 8 a.m. Westin Westminster 10600 Westminster Blvd., Westminster.
The theme of this year’s summit is Breakthrough; talks will focus on shattering ceilings, breaking molds and challenging gender status quo. Regular tickets are $150, but CU undergraduates can attend for just $15, and CU graduate students can attend for $35.
Rogue Wave. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
Orion: The Birthplace of Stars and Planets.
Signal Test. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
Tune-Yards — with My Brightest Diamond. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Youth Pop A Capella (Ages 7 to 12). 4 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-7444. Events BPW Boulder’s Annual Celebration of Women. 5:30 p.m. Element Bistro, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder, 303-530-5400. Bryan Callen. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Curator’s Talk — with Mandy Vink. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. An Evening with L.S. Gardiner: Tales from an Uncertain World Discussion. 6 p.m. Denver Woman’s Press Clubhouse, 1325 Logan St., Denver, 303-839-1519. Geopolitics Discussion Group. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Ron Stewart Preserve, Rabbit Mountain, Boulder. Longmont Laughfest: Comedy Lingo Bingo with Shanae Ross. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017. Longmont Laughfest: Opening Night with Rachel Weeks. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Suite D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Loving Vincent. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
A presentation of the latest images from ground-based telescopes, plus images from the space observatories of Chandra, Spitzer, Herschel and Hubble. A second showing on Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m.
5 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, Throughout the building, 1085 18th St., Boulder.
Featuring exhibitions by Sam Arcara, Lucy Gale, Lexie Lund, Grace Khalsa, Gabriel Sanchez, Emily Matteson, Madeline Stewart, Maddie Camilli, Alanna Lacey and Haley Hyde.
Guest Speaker Gabriella Safran. 5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.
Gabriella Safran, from Stanford University, will present “The Sound of the Jewish Voice and the Russian Revolution.”
Fresh: A CU Dance Concert. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, Charlotte York Irey Theatre, 1515 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
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Chris Dismuke. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
Samskara.
Grant and Tone. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Hazel Miller Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
4 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. The Grammy Award-winning string quartet has been moving audiences and selling out concerts for three decades at CU Boulder. Another show at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 30.
1 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
Experience this evolving and ongoing project inspired by the amazing digital artwork of Android Jones, created in collaboration with 360ART. Based on ancient Vedic tales and Sanskrit mantras. Another showing on April 29 at 1 p.m.
MONDAY, APRIL 30 CU at Boettcher: A Night with the CU Wind Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. CU Boulder’s Wind Symphony caps off the school year with an evening of exciting new music at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver.
BFA Exhibition 2018 — Opening Reception.
Music
Flight Path. 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272.
Takács Quartet.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
Friday, April 27
An Evening with Cody Qualls. 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-335-4581.
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
ASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Barrado y Navascués (LAEFFINTA) via Wikimedia Commons
Enjoy a mix of hip-hop, aerial, fusion forms and improvised offerings crafted by undergraduate and graduate dance students.
City Nature Challenge Kick-Off. 4 p.m. Foothills Community Park, 800 Cherry Ave., Boulder.
Based on the critically acclaimed 2017 book, Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era. Author Cara Judea Alhadeff and biodiversity advocate and educator Rob Mies will perform excerpts from Zazu Dreams that challenge consumer-addicted convenience-culture. Another performance on Sunday, April 29 at 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, MAY 1 BTU Open Hack Night. 6 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, Blow Things Up Lab (ATLS 113), 1125 18th St., Boulder.
Join us in the BTU Lab for an open-house night of hacking! Eat cupcakes, bring a project (or just come see the cool things other people are working on) and hack the planet!
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 Victor Hanson: World War II — Then and Now. 5:30 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 150, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war’s origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising.
AIA Lecture Series: What’s New at Chaco? New Questions, New Answers. 7 p.m. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Paleontology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Dr. Steven Lekson will review recent research at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and the new directions it suggests for ancient history.
Zazu Dreams: A Declaration of Interdependence, A Love Story. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
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Amidst the chaos, the voice of the people grows stronger
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Clearly, the world is in crisis. Yet there is reason for hope. People everywhere are beginning to sense their power: their right to speak, to influence, and to shape their destiny. What is behind this surge in People Power?
Please join us for a free, thought-provoking talk to learn about the galvanizing force behind the "voice of the people", a group of enlightened teachers, led by Maitreya, the World Teacher. Boulder Public Library • 1001 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder CO Wednesday, May 2 • 6:30pm • Flatirons Room Wednesday, June 27 • 6:30pm • Flagstaff Room Share-International.org
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David Shayne is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work but quickly abandons that stance when his producer finds a backer to mount his show on Broadway. There’s just one catch, however: the backer is a mobster who sees Shayne’s play as a vehicle for his ditzy, talent-free girlfriend. See Bullets Over Broadway at Vintage Theatre in Aurora through May 27.
Aladdin. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through April 28. Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 29. Always... Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through May 20. Anastasia. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through May 5.
Man of La Mancha. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse,4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through June 17.
Annie. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens April 13. Through July 8. Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through May 27. The Diary of Anne Frank. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through April 28. The Electric Baby. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 4. Going to a Place Where You Already Are — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through May 6. Little Red Riding Hood. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 28. Macbeth. 7:30 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver. Through May 27.
Native Gardens. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 6. A Picasso — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver Through April 29. Remembering a Knight to Remember. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 19. Sense and Sensibility. Arvada Center for Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 6. Voyage Into the Blue. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder. Through April 29. The Who’s Tommy. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Opens April 20. Through May 27.
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Live eTown Radio Show Taping — with Bettye LaVette. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
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Many Mountains. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Microbreweries for the Environment: Amoramora / Intuit. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Join Boulder Book Store for Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 28 beginning at 1 p.m. Celebrate with unique bookish activities, drinks, snacks, games and more! There will be exclusive dayof merchandise created especially for Independent Bookstore Day by major publishers and authors. At 3 p.m., Boulder Book Store head buyer Arsen Kashkashian and KGNU’s Maeve Conran will interview Elisabeth Hyde, author of Go Ask Fannie, live for KGNU.
Music & Movement. 10:30 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Music of India Singing Class. 12 p.m. Hamsa Arts, 1919 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-449-5030. Neil Haverstick. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Railsplitters — with 300 Days. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Rain In July, 1000 Miles of Fire. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Rockabilly Night: The Von Hodads, The Lucky Few. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Rocky Mountain Chorale | Make Our Garden Grow | Spring 2018 Concert. 7:30 p.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523. Sean Flynn — with Nelson Walker, Brooks Steele. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Taylor Scott Acoustic Trio. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. When Darkness Falls, Seven Sea Voyage, Uncultured Swine. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Wonderbound Presents: Madness, Rack, and Honey with the Colorado Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Events Sixth Annual Front Range Film Festival. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
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Magdalena Wszelaki — Cooking for Hormone Balance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.
Saturday, April 28 Boulder Writing Dates. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Tuesday, May 1 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Independent Bookstore Day. 1 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Craig Childs — Atlas of a Lost World. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Sunday, April 29
Wednesday, May 2
Stamp Money Out of Politics with Ben & Jerry’s Cofounder Ben Cohen. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Marc Bekoff — Canine Confidential. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Boulder International Folk Dancers 2018 Serbian Dance Workshop. 10 p.m. Sodal Hall at The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chris D’Elia. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Longmont Laughfest with Rojo Perez. 5 p.m. Grossenbart Brewing, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 720-438-2060. Longmont Laughfest: Stand Up, Sketch, and Front DeRanged. 9 p.m. Longtucky Spirits, 350 Terry St., Suite 120, Longmont, 720-545-2017.
Madness, Rack and Honey. 7:30 p.m. Pinnacle Charter School, 1001 W. 84th Ave., Denver, 303-292-4700. Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. There. Here. Near. La Aqui Perto. 6 p.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-3464.
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arts Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15.
Installation view of Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, in 2017 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photo by Brian Forrest.
Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13. Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27. Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22. Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October. Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Macky
Auditorium (foyer), 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through May 6. Large Format Fine Art Prints From Paper Collage — by Kimberly Mcclintock. NCAR/ UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28. Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21. Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28. Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.
Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death is a new video by artist, director and award-winning cinematographer Arthur Jafa. Set to the searing highs and lows of Kanye West’s gospel-inspired hip-hop track, “Ultralight Beam,” Love Is The Message is a masterful convergence of found footage that traces African-American identity through a vast spectrum of contemporary imagery. Now showing at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art through May 13.
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (homage to Gene R.) — photography by Vandy Vandervort. NCAR/UCAR Community Art Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through April 28. Stampede: Animals in Art. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 19. A Vulnerable Paradigm of Wonder. Vision West Contemporary, 2605 Walnut St., Denver. Through May 5. Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.
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Saturday, April 28 Music Adrian Legg. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Tuft Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Adult Singing for the Shy Singer (10-week course). 1:30 p.m. Sing Yourself Happy Studio, 1602 Budd Court, Longmont, 720-975-4514. Ars Nova Singers: Music Beyond Words. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-499-3165. Belgian Brew Fest. 1 p.m. Bruz Beers, 1675 W. 67th Ave., Suite 100, Denver, 303-650-2337. Boulder Philharmonic: West Side Story — Bernstein at 100. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343. CHS Orchestra Yard Sale Fundraiser. 9 a.m. Angevine Middle School, 1150 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-561-7182. The Colorado Recorder Orchestra. 7 p.m. St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, 7520 S. Boulder Road, Entrance off Barcelona Drive, Boulder, 203-655-4060.
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RMPJC AND KGNU CELEBRATION OF ROCKY FLATS TRUTH FORCE 40TH ANNIVERSARY. Various locations and times, April 26-29, Boulder. Here’s your chance to celebrate three community milestones: the Rocky Flats Truth Force 40th reunion, KGNU Community Radio’s 40th anniversary and Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center’s (RMPJC) 35th anniversary. The event kicks off on Thursday, April 26 with a film screening of Dr. Strangelove at Naropa University. On Friday, April 27, artist Jeff Gipe will launch a group art exhibit, Facing Rocky Flats, at the Boulder Public Library. Gipe will also be showing a preview of his upcoming film The Half-Life of Memory: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear Trigger Daniel Ellsberg on Sunday evening. On Saturday, April 28, enjoy workshops, a panel of the Truth Force Members and a community lunch featuring several local food trucks. Rocky Flats activist Dr. Daniel Ellsberg will give an interactive talk via Skype on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center (the only paid event of the weekend). Ellsberg was one of hundreds of protestors who were arrested for acts of civil disobedience, ultimately leading to the end of weapons production at the Rocky Flats plant in 1989. Ellsberg went to battle with the U.S. government in 1971 by releasing the Pentagon Papers.
Día del Niño. 11 a.m. Boulder Central Park, 1200 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Dreamboat Annie, Message In A Bottle. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Erik Boa Duo. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Flight Path. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272. Francis and the Wolf. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Full Moon Sound Bath. 7 p.m. Rocky Mountain Miracle Center, 1939 S. Monroe St., Denver, 303-759-3409. Glen Phillips. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Hayley Kiyoko. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
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Jason McIntyre & Michael O’Connor. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Lyons Bluegrass Collective. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Mystery Show. 9 p.m. Club 156, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-7704. Of Montreal. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Resonance Women’s Chorus: Deep Breath. 5 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-8337. Richie Furay Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Rocky Mountain Chorale | Make Our Garden Grow | Spring 2018 Concert. 7:30 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-494-5025. Events Sixth Annual Front Range Film Festival. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder International Folk Dancers 2018 Serbian Dance Workshop. 9 a.m. Sodal Hall at The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Bow Wow Film Festival. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 970-708-1110.
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Geology Hike. 9 a.m. Ron Stewart Preserve, Rabbit Mountain, Boulder.
Conscious Dance. 8 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500.
Wednesday, May 2
May Day Festival. 9 a.m. Harlequin’s Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403.
GED Preparation Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.
Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Sunday, April 29 Music Colorado Blues Society. 4 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 3038-364-9384.
May Pole Dance in the former Labrynth Garden. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Flight Path. 2 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272.
Snark Attack Tuesday. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-3354845.
Java: Panji Ballet. 11:50 a.m. History Colorado Museum, 1200 Broadway, Denver, 970-613-0439.
Women Build Construction Clinic. 6 p.m. Lowe’s of Longmont, 355 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-682-2485.
Moth Circus Alice in Wonderland. 2 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720.
Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Deeper Into Guitar. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5968. Dessa. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Deva Premal & Miten — with Manose. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. John Lensing and Maya Bennett. 6:30 p.m.
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Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Events Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4413100. SBDC — Bilingual Business Planning Boot Camp (in English). 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
music@theJ — Classical, Traditional and Folk Music from Iran. 7 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 720-749-2530. Reverend Hylton. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Solas: African Song & Dance. 7 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. Synesthesia. 4 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Events Sixth Annual Front Range Film Festival. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Boulder International Folk Dancers 2018 Serbian Dance Workshop. 10 a.m. Sodal Hall at The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Día del Niño Celebration. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Mother/Daughter Fit Fest. 3 p.m. Skirt Sports, 2795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-3740. Rocky Flats Exhibit Screening. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Rumble in the Rockies: Get Your Chefs Challenge On! 2 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Water Cycle Fun. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Monday, April 30 Music God Save the Queens: Queer Punk Night. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Willie Watson. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Events Grassland Birds — Boulder Rights of Nature Film Series. 5:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder. May Day Festival. 9 a.m. Harlequin’s Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403. Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Tuesday, May 1 Music Colin Robison & The Heavy Hearts. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Kind Hearted Strangers. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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A Lesson in Deep Time for Birch Malotky by John Haworth
I stand atop history and geology, Mineral Mountain, El Dorado. This continent continues its slow tilt towards the sun on the axis of season. Beneath the melting snow the Earth is alive with the damp smell of vernal growth germinating. Thrush and Warbler sing of their return. The retreating snow reveals scat and tracks of Ungulates, life leaving its impression in its perpetual migration following sun and season. I stand at the edge of a bare outcrop, rocks atop one another in perfect balance. I close my eyes. The world is alive in sound and silence. The sun is warm on my lips. The rocks beneath my feet give way, life out of balance. I fall forward slowly, there is no Earth to hold me. I fall into the valley until I am caught by dirt and rock far below. The impact is not subtle yet, I do not stop. I continue to pass through the membrane of sand and soil. My ears bleed gravity. I am no longer me.
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I am Mammoth footprints in the White Sands of time, not fossilized, but fresh impressions appearing and disappearing for the first time in thousands of years; simple Paleolithic patterns, daydreams of human mind.
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The sediment of cells erodes beyond Cenozoic. I am crust and dust compressed and fossilized, an Igneous intrusive dreaming of magma mother. Nightmare of extinctions propels acceleration
through Mesozoic sandstone into Paleozoic apocalypse. Permian-Triassic extinction: life nearly ends. Cambrian explosion: life begins. Metamorphic metamorphosis, loss of memory. Long descent through Precambrian geology, the history of Earth alone onto itself. Mind becomes molten. Parts split apart, an annihilation of being, non-existence at the core of self. Bright abyss, consume and shape me into solid centrifugal inner sphere; Coriolis force erupting magnetic field and gravity. I move away from the center of mass. Inner core, outer core, mesosphere mantle, asthenosphere, lithosphere. I fall through fissures, an Igneous extrusive erupting at the bottom of the sea. I am an island with a hot tempered tongue. I vomit flame and ash. The sky breathes me and I block out the sun. My eyes fly open. I catch my breath in ragged gasps atop the bare outcrop. A dark cloud has passed before the sun. It is going to snow. The birds have flown away. All is silent, waiting. The dry smell of Winter still clings to my clothes. I follow my footprints home, the impression of me already eroding. I look back in time to see the rock fall. Its violent journey rings in my ears until its final silence punctuates the last sentence on the last page in the book of life written in stone.
John Haworth is a word-enthusiastic bibliophile in charge of cramming books in their proper places between writing poetry and scooping ice cream. He lives in Nederland.
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his Friday, Marvel Studios releases Avengers: Infinity Wars, a massive movie ON THE BILL: Denver that will, reportedly, tie-up 10 years and Silent Film Festival. April 27–29, Alamo Drafthouse 18 installments worth of narrative threads Cinema — Sloans Lake, and character arcs in one ear-ringing, eye4255 W. Colfax Ave., ball-searing, two-hour-and-30-minute extravaDenver, denversilentfilmfest.org ganza. The geek may not inherit the Earth, but their seat on the box office throne is indisputable. But that’s not what you are looking for. You’re looking for something that speaks softly (or not at all) and carries a big cinematic stick. Something that cuts through the clutter and addresses the heart in ways only a moving image can. You don’t need words, just faces. Well, lucky for you, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema — Sloans Lake welcomes back the Denver Silent Film Festival (DSFF) April 27–29, with a lineup so good even the diehard Marvelites will want to drop in. Co-founded by Howie Movshovitz and David Dynak in 2010, the DSFF has spent the better part of the past decade keeping the lights on for silent cinema. And not just the heavy hitters, but also overlooked gems deserving of a wider audience. Case in point, 1916’s The Dumb Girl of Portici (April 29, 4:30 p.m.). Directed by Lois Weber — one of the greatest filmmakers to ever be forgotten — and her husband, Phillips Smalley, Girl of Portici stars the famous ballerina, Anna Pavlova, as Fenella, a deaf, mute fisher-girl living under the Spanish occupation of Naples in the mid-17th century. It’s a crowd-pleaser and an early blockbuster, the first — and possibly the only blockbuster from the 20th century — helmed by a female director. Rarities aren’t the only thing you’ll find at DSFF. Speedy (April 29, 7:30 p.m.), a comedy starring Harold Lloyd, is a delightful love letter to New York City; The Lodger (April 28, 7 p.m.) is the first film to truly display Alfred Hitchcock’s technical and emotional prowess; and The Passion of Joan of Arc (April 28, 10 a.m.) is quite possibly the greatest film ever made. Based on the court transcripts that condemned a 19-year-old to the stake, Passion features Renee Falconetti in a performance so powerful, so unforgettable, it is unlike any screen performance before or since. Too heavy? How about some Walt Disney cartoons? On April 28, 1 p.m., renowned Disney scholar Russell Merritt receives DSFF’s David Shepard Career Achievement Award and will give a presentation of Disney’s early silent shorts — from Laugh-O-Grams to the Alice Comedies — as well as one infamously not so silent cartoon: Steamboat Willie, starring a whistling Mickey Mouse. And so we come back to the mouse, the overlord of all those Marvel movies and more. Avengers will be playing at the Drafthouse all weekend, right alongside some of the best from cinema’s early days. Both carry with them a diehard fan base, which means you might spy someone in a Spider-Man onesie saddling up to the bar next to a Harold Lloyd look-alike, while Merritt discusses Julius, Oswald and Mickey with animation buffs in the corner. When it comes to the cinema, there’s room for everybody. Boulder Weekly
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alking toward 13th Street on the first Saturday of the Boulder County Farmers Market, a palpable buzz filled the chilly air. We all missed the place, judging by the crowds cruising the food court and the limited early season offerings of arugula, beets, winter carrots, chives, greenhouse tomatoes, kale, pea shoots and spring onions. It was great to greet folks I hadn’t seen since the final market day of 2017. I overheard serious discussions about the best way to prepare sweet overwintered spinach, one of the season’s first greens. Like professional baseball’s sacramental opening day of the season, the first Saturday market is a spring ritual infused with hope. However, standing in the middle of the hubbub I wondered if Boulder’s nationally acclaimed market would lose its glow if it was open yearround. If Boulder had a permanent foodcentric market hall we could visit on any given Saturday — or even every day of the week — would this Saturday in April still be a festive occasion? I’ve been writing about the possibility of a year-round market in Boulder for several decades. I may write about it for several
more. There are recent proposals to create a market hall in the same block as the current market site in an existing or new building. It would be designed to complement the Aprilto-November Boulder County Farmers Market. It seems like a no-brainer for Boulder to
Aurora’s new Stanley Marketplace. Boulder doesn’t have any large old brick factories or a train terminal sitting around waiting to be rehabilitated into cool public gathering spaces. The impediments include winter weather, a short growing season, high real estate costs and finding funding sources and business partners. Also, Boulder has famously moved at a glacial pace in considering major new public projects over the years. At that first market, I hung out with the farmers, chefs and folks who work the event. When I asked them about the viability of a year-round facility the reaction was mixed. One farmer wasn’t sure that he wanted to do it. “By the time we get to November, we need to take a break and focus on other projects and maintenance on the farm,” he said. Another farmer suggested a monthly winter farmers market but there is not an attractive, affordable venue available in Boulder. One market merchant said that a 12-month venue would be good for farmers and would encourage them to grow more winter greenhouse crops and produce preserved, canned and fermented foods using local crops. Boulder’s winter weather is a factor,
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have a market hall — a year-round public market downtown with a demo kitchen, event space and room for classes and tastings showcasing Boulder County’s array of tasty goods. There is a complicated reason why Boulder lacks a year-round market like Pike Place in Seattle or even a cool food hall like Avanti, Denver Central Market, The Source and Zeppelin Station in Denver, and
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although locals are notoriously active even when there is a foot of snow on the ground. As I left the market that Saturday, it struck me that a year-round market hall in Boulder would mean we wouldn’t have to suffer the sense of loss that comes with the final Boulder County Farmers Market each season. Comments? Send them to: nibbles@ boulderweekly.com.
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If you live in Boulder, consider planting an extra row for fighting hunger this summer. Fresh Food Connect will pick up vegetables from you and your neighbors. boulderfoodrescue.org/fresh-food-connect. “Wrapping your head around just how many coffee roasters are doing good work in booming Denver right now could take a while — there’s Middle State, Corvus, Huckleberry, Commonwealth; Boulder’s got Ozo, and Boxcar, too,” according to Food and Wine magazine, which named Lakewood’s Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters as Colorado’s best coffee roaster. The last vestige of one of Boulder’s pioneering natural foods brands has faded into history. WhiteWave was founded by Steve Demos in Boulder in 1977. I remember him delivering fresh tofu to a handful of Boulder restaurants and markets that knew what tofu was. WhiteWave Foods went through various transitions before the French conglomerate Danone recently bought the company for $12.5 billion. It was renamed DanoneWave. 44 April 26 , 2018
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When you have “Championship” in your name you had better serve some wonderful barbecue. The smoky perfume certainly beckoned when I walked into GQue Championship Barbecue in Westminster. The meats are slowsmoked in-house over Missouri hickory every day. In true barbecue tradition, when they run out of smoked meats that’s it until the next day. I was impressed with the ribs because the meat didn’t fall off the bone — a sure sign of overcooked pork. Instead, the meat had some chew with an infused smokiness that wasn’t overbearing and woody. I was also happy to see the two sweet, smoky tomato-molasses barbecue sauces on the side and not on the meats, including some softly shredded pork. The plate came with Texas toast, a pickle spear and house-pickled onions. (GQue will be serving at the inaugural Denver BBQ Festival during the Father’s Day weekend.)
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o succeed — it’s got to be from the moment you decide you’re going to do it until the end — you have to be relentless with your pursuit,” says Brett Zimmerman on the patio of his wine shop, Boulder Wine Merchant. He’s talking about what it took to pass the series of courses required to become a Master Sommelier (MS). There are only 150 or so in the U.S., and though Zimmerman says the exams — which the Court of Master Sommeliers developed to test one’s ability in wine service,
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knowledge and blind tasting — are challenging, it’s the years of adjusting one’s life that makes becoming an MS so difficult. “You have to basically change your lifestyle,” Zimmerman says. “If you’re used to getting up and hanging out, reading the newspaper... no, no, no, you have to get up in the morning, you’ve got to devote X amount of time in the morning. When you’re done with your [work] shift, yeah, everyone’s going out to get a beer, you have to be like, ‘No, I’m going to go home and study for another couple hours.’ You have to do that not just for one week, you have to literally do it until you pass the exam. So seven, eight, nine, 10 years, however long it takes to do that. You incorporate blind tasting for two, three, four days a week for 10 years. But you can’t just turn it on and off, you have to be dedicated.” Zimmerman says the only thing that can sustain someone through the examination process is passion. If you’re not committed to passing the exam, and prepared to bounce back from failure, you simply won’t pass the last of four parts necessary to receive the MS
Boulder Wine Merchant owner and Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman has a wide variety of wine in his shop, and in his cellar.
designation. Zimmerman knew early that he wanted to pursue a career in food and wine, and with a few fortunate experiences and people dropping into his life, he’s built about as well-rounded a career in wine as one can. It started in Boulder (where, by the way, Zimmerman was born at the hospital across the street from Boulder Wine Merchant). He went to business school at the University of Colorado while working at Laudisio’s and Flagstaff House, two fine dining establishments that have staked their reputations on excellent service and great wine programs. The allure of what Zimmerman calls “the theater of service” was enchanting, and appealed more to him than a pursuit in finance, which is what his friends and peers were undertaking. “I kept finding myself being most passionate about food and wine and beverage service, so when I was getting close to graduating, basically ... all my buddies were going to work for Bear see ZIMMERMAN Page 48
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Stearns, for JP Morgan, and I was like, ‘You know what, I’m putting myself to sleep just thinking about it.’” Zimmerman chose passion over money. He chose to know wine through the pursuit of knowing everything about it, as opposed to making a high salary and dropping it on fancy bottles at top restaurants. If he had any doubts about his choice, he had plenty of opportunities to see the other side while working at Chicago’s Charlie Trotter’s, where guests flocked to experience the restaurant’s trendsetting wine program. He saw it working in Michael Mina’s high-end restaurants in San Francisco, where Zimmerman felt like he “was kind of swimming upstream while everyone was riding the wave of the dot-com boom.” “I was one of the remaining people working in the restaurant business. People were like, ‘What are you doing, man? You can make $5 million doing this, that or the other thing, and I was like, ‘That’s just not my thing,’” he says. He saw it launching restaurants at the Bellagio, where high-stakes gamblers might spend up to $60,000 on wine on any given night. And yet, he didn’t flinch. He came back to Boulder after his nationwide apprenticeship, and crossed paths with Bobby Stuckey, who was on the precipice of achieving his MS pin and opening Frasca. Tasting wines every Saturday with Stuckey solidified Zimmerman’s decision to take the two remaining MS courses. He had amassed a varied and impressive catalog of experiences, was launching the restaurant Mateo with Chef Matthew Jansen, and had the invaluable resource of access to several Master Sommeliers — not only Stuckey, but Sally Mohr and Wayne Belding, from whom he would eventually buy Boulder Wine Merchant; Jay Fletcher in Aspen, and wine experts at The Little Nell, also in Aspen. Mentorship, Zimmerman says, is a linchpin of the MS program; those who have gone before know the unique challenge the program presents. “I would say we all share the common bond of sacrifice,” Zimmerman says of the MS community. “To get through the Master exam or Advanced exam, at some level you will experience failure. You will. Period. Everybody has. Some more than others. But it’s humbling — that beat-down you take, the fact you just have to redouble your efforts time and time again and get back up on the saddle and be like, ‘You got to do this again.’” Ultimately, Zimmerman has proven that he made the right choice to follow his passion. His hands are still in a number of arenas, including consulting for a beverage company, development of a canned cocktail, running the Boulder
Burgundy Festival (now in its eighth year) and, of course, operating Boulder Wine Merchant. Zimmerman knew that simply passing the MS exam was useless, both personally and for the wine-drinking community, if he didn’t utilize the information he had gathered. “You don’t just get through the [MS] exam, it’s not like the draft, like, ‘OK, I’m going to sign this $500 million contract. Like any industry, you’re only useful if you’re a good employee. If you have all this knowledge and you pass the exam but you’re a train wreck of an employee, you’re going to be hard to employ,” he says. That’s an attitude we in Boulder County benefit from. To have access to the knowledge of an MS via Boulder Wine Merchant, without the barrier to entry that a fine dining establishment possesses, is a rarity — Zimmerman estimates only five or six other wine shops in the country are operated by Master Sommeliers. But Zimmerman says he gets more out of it himself because he’s able to share the world of wine with a much more diverse community. “When it’s all said and done, the connection to the community is what’s so important. When I bought this store, I didn’t want to sit in back and run an online store, grabbing warehouse space in East Boulder and sitting behind a computer,” he says. Zimmerman says people come into the shop often to see him, and cull information and buying tips, just as they would ask for Stuckey or any other MS in a restaurant. But providing wine at various price points, from small producers all over the world, is where Zimmerman says the value of his store is most evident. “Anybody can spend $50 on a bottle of wine and have it be good. The reality is we spend most of our time going through and kissing a lot of frogs before finding the princes when it comes to that under-$10, under-$15 category on the shelf,” he says. But that effort has been worth it; to be able to go in and grab a monthly special bottle of wine from an artisan producer for under $10 that’s been vetted by an MS is spectacular. Zimmerman says he tastes up to 100 wines a day to curate his store. It also helps him curate his own wine cellar, which he says has grown so big, he’s “got a problem.” The real problem, though, might be deciding what to pull out and drink. We’ve got Zimmerman, but where does he turn when he needs some inspiration? “I think wine drinking for me is kind of like a wardrobe,” he says. “Take a look outside and decide how you’re feeling, what are you cooking, what’s the weather like, what’s the time of year, those kinds of things make the decision easier.” Boulder Weekly
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URANUS SMELLS LIKE ROTTEN EGGS Scientists at Oxford University published research this week that detailed how Uranus smells like rotten eggs, due to the presence of hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere. The lead scientist on the project was reportedly hesitant to publish the findings that Uranus smells like rotten eggs because he’d given his entire life to study the distant planet’s atmosphere, dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours on rigorous study, eschewing any semblance of a social life to the point that he no longer believes he is capable of loving anyone, not even his parents, who, like everyone else, laughed at him for having the audacity to believe he could excel in astrophysics and mathematics when he couldn’t even manage a B in elementary school math. After all the years of abuse and belittlement, as people close to him didn’t believe in his ability, and laughed at his ridiculous pursuit to find some arcane detail about something so far removed from earth, to come out and say Uranus smells like rotten eggs is like a slap in the face. “Sure, it’s a funny name for a planet, but I love it nonetheless, and guess what? Say it the other way, the way you’re supposed to say it, and it still sounds like urine. It still sounds like urine, Dad!”
THE HIP BONE’S CONNECTED TO THE STABBING BONE Sure, you know Uranus smells like rotten eggs, but did you know your thigh bones make the most exquisite, durable daggers? Despite our in-office collection of human-bone daggers, we had no idea just how superior they were either. Sklmsta via Wikimedia Commons Studying weapons prized by the people of New Guinea, a team of researchers used imaging, computer simulations and very practical, notat-all creepy stabbing tests on daggers made from human bones to determine that yes, humans are indeed good for something other than destroying the planet and making people like Kim Kardashian wildly famous. In the paper detailing their findings, the authors write that human-bone knives were worn as “conspicuous personal adornments” and were a “highly desirable status symbol among men.” Who needs custom-tailored suits when you can brandish the intricately carved, blood-stained bones of your enemies? Morbid, yes, but take heart in how much humanity has evolved since the days when our ancestors killed each other in hand-to-hand combat and stripped the meat from their skeletons in order to use those bones as weapons to kill other humans. Now we politely smear nerve agents on the doors of our enemies so they can quietly foam at the mouth on a public park bench.
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your self-mastery? I suspect you are.
Imagine you’re one of four porcupines caught in frigid weather. To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool your body heat. But whenever you try to get close, you prick each other with your quills. The only solution to that problem is to move away from each other, even though it means you can’t quell your chill as well. This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma. We want to be intimate with each other, Freud said, but we hurt each other when we try. The oft-chosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.
CANCER
MARCH 21-APRIL 19:
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: The Simpsons is the longest-running
American TV sitcom and animated series. But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and the results got better. When the program completes its 30th season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like The Simpsons, it will eventually become better than it is in the early going. Stick with it.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: The coming weeks might be an
interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready. Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers
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fore, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”
JUNE 21-JULY 22: The Hollywood film industry Go to RealAstrology.com to check out relies heavily on recyRob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO cled ideas. In 2014, for HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE example, only one of the HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes ten top-grossing movies are also available by phone at — Interstellar — was not 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. a sequel, remake, reboot, or episode in a franchise. In the coming weeks and LIBRA months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more like Interstellar than SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The bad news is that 60 percent of like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Transformers: Age of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news — at Extinction, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the six other least for historians, tourists and hikers — is that the Old top-10 rehashes of 2014. Be original! West town of St. Thomas has re-emerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: Long ago, in the land we now call in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food departed influence. crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose, SCORPIO and warriors began to outnumber farmers, the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant OCT. 23-NOV. 21: I hope the next seven weeks will be champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I The astrological omens suggest it can be. Would you encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction. Now is like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation? If so, try an excellent time to transmute aggressiveness and comthe following strategies. 1) Arrange for you and each of bativeness into fecundity and tenderness. your close companions to relive the time when you first met. Recall and revitalize the dispensation that originally brought you together. 2) Talk about the influences you’ve VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: You sometimes get superstitious had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved. 3) Fantasize about the inspirations and help when life is going well. You worry about growing you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4) Brainstorm overconfident. You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself about the benefits your connection has provided and will too much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good provide for the rest of the world. fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, SAGITTARIUS is that your intuition is extra-strong and your decisionmaking is especially adroit. More luck than usual is NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Now is one of the rare times when flowing in your vicinity, and you have an enhanced you should be alert for the potential downsides of blessknack for capitalizing on it. In my estimation, thereings that usually sustain you. Even the best things in life
could require adjustments. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs may have pockets of ignorance. So don’t be a prisoner of your own success or a slave of good habits. Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to the most interesting kind of progress you can achieve in the coming weeks.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist. In her book A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro at sexual climax, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting you in some other way. Ask for it! Seek it out! Solicit it!
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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Can you afford to hire someone to
do your busy work for a while? If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psychospiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money and making sweet nonsense. Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear. Trust the stars in your own eyes.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: I believe it’s a favorable time for
you to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches and initiators. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much and twice as fast about every subject that will be important for you during the next two years. Your future educational needs require your full attention.
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SAVAGE by Dan Savage
Dear Dan: I’m a 42-year-old gay man. I’ve been with my husband for 21 years. We met in college and, except for a six-month break, we’ve been together ever since. I made an open relationship a requirement at the start. While my husband had jealousy and trust issues, he © Rachel Robinson hooked up with others regularly. After a few tense years, we started couples therapy. During therapy, my husband revealed that he was never in favor of the openness. After trying some new arrangements — only together, only at sex parties, DADT — he realized he wasn’t comfortable with any situation. He told our therapist that every time I hooked up with someone, he was retraumatized because it reminded him of the time I broke up with him for six months 20 years ago. I agreed to a monogamous relationship, and I’ve gone a year without hooking up with anyone else. He seemed genuinely relieved and said he felt more secure. But almost immediately, he began talking about how he wanted to hook up with others. I’m at a loss. I feel tremendous guilt for
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even thinking about splitting up, so I keep hoping we’ll stumble on the thing that will work for us. I don’t know what to say when he says I should be monogamous to him while he gets to hook up with others. He says this would be best, since my hooking up triggers him. We are at an impasse. It sucks that we could break up over this. —Gay Marriage Having Crisis Dear GMHC: I’ve written about a few gay couples — and a few straight ones — where one half gets to hook up with others while the other half doesn’t. But they were cuckold couples, GMHC, and the half who didn’t “get to” hook up with others didn’t want to hook up with others. The cuck half of a cuckold couple gets off on their partner “cheating” on them. While people outside the relationship might perceive that as unfair — one gets to cheat, the other doesn’t — what’s more ideal than both halves of a couple getting just what they want? But if an eroticized power imbalance — an honestly erotized one — doesn’t turn you on, the creepily manipulative arrangement your husband is proposing certainly isn’t going to work.
Which means it’s both ultimatum and bluff-calling time. So long as your husband thinks he can dictate terms by pointing to his triggers and his trauma, GMHC, he has every incentive to continue being triggered and traumatized. So with your couples therapist there to mediate, tell him your marriage is either open or closed. You’re not interested in being his cuckold and he can’t point to his trauma to force you into that role. You’re a handsome couple — thanks for enclosing the lovely picture (sometimes it’s nice to see the face of the person I’m responding to!) — with a long history together, and here’s hoping things work out. But if they don’t, GMHC, neither of you is going to have a problem finding a new partner. He can get himself a guy who likes being dictated to, if that’s really what he wants. And you can find a guy who wants an open and egalitarian relationship, which is what you deserve. P.S. If your therapist is taking your husband’s side in this, GMHC, get a new therapist. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @ fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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by Sidni West
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here’s just something about being on your feet all day and dealing with insufferable people who lie about having trendy food allergies that makes servers want to get stoned. According to a recent study that surveyed 10,000 working adults in Colorado between 2014-15, just over 30 percent of food service and hotel employees admitted to current marijuana use, which is more than any other industry in the state. If you ever worked in a restaurant, this should come as no surprise. If you’ve somehow managed to avoid the hospitality industry your entire life, I’m going to fill you in on why no one wants to be sober. When I moved to Boulder from Maryland in 2012, I didn’t know anyone. After dropping out of grad school a couple months later, I did what every young person who has no idea how life works does: wait tables. I ended up working at a popular brewery in town and quickly adjusted to a world of aggressive drinking, chain smoking and never having to buy groceries again. Everyone from the teenage hostess to the general manager was smoking weed at some point before, during or after their shift. On more than one occasion, even the wealthy owner would show up unannounced and start cleaning random tables because he was stoned and thought it was funny to introduce himself to customers as the bus boy (it was). The reality of server life, or at least in my experience, is that it typically involves a fast-paced work environment where you’re surrounded by other young, conventionally attractive people who like to party. The stress and drama that comes with it is just part of business, but that’s not the only reason why servers are turning to cannabis. For starters, the study mentions that people ages 18-25 smoke the most weed, which is also the age group most likely to work in a restaurant. Also, getting paid in tips means that you always have a ton of cash at your disposal. Dealing with so much paper
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money felt like a constant hole burning in my wallet because if it wasn’t deposited in my bank account, I could justify it as “extra” to spend on whatever I wanted. And it just so happened that cash was the only form of payment accepted by most dispensaries at the time, making it a simple transaction. Then consider that servers are on the complete opposite schedule of everyone else in the world. When most people are heading home from the office, servers are just going in. And when most people are sound asleep, they are scrubbing down a bar. Naturally, I would wake up around noon and, because I didn’t have to deal with emails, work or anything that required even a minimal amount of cognitive functioning when I wasn’t on the clock, I could wake and bake pretty much every day. Then there’s the whole culture of mild drug use as a way to connect with your coworkers. Everyday you all have to deal with an endless amount of commands, rude people and poor tippers. There’s a lot of camaraderie that happens when you earn close to nothing compared to the amount of work that you do and the patience you have to maintain. It’s that labor-intensive job that necessitates breaks. And there’s no better excuse for a break than going out for a quick smoke. After a tough shift,
you’re gonna want to bond with your coworkers over a spliff and do your best impersonation of the snob who complained because they only wanted ONE slice of lemon in their water and NO ice. GOD. Most of the people working in the service industry are just trying to get by. When I was doing it, I was living month to month and had no idea what kind of impact I wanted to make on the world. Weed helped me stay chill and not stress myself to the point of overthinking everything I was doing wrong in life. Eventually, my writing career took off, which is ironic because according to the same study mentioned earlier, artists and entertainers aren’t far behind servers when it comes to enjoying cannabis. Twenty-eight percent of people in those fields say they currently smoke weed. In all other professions surveyed, fewer than 6 percent of workers said they’d recently used marijuana. The employees least likely to use marijuana are those working in education, public administration; mining, oil and gas; and health care, basically anywhere there’s a possibility of getting drug tested or where there are bigger consequences than being reprimanded for accidentally giving someone regular Coke instead of diet.
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ow! I haven’t been this exhilarated by anything involving pot since the night in 1989 when Leland (a former editor and pot writer at Boulder Weekly) and I got stoned and watched the Berlin Wall come down. That’s because another wall is collapsing
— the metaphorical one those of us advocating for marijuana legalization have been banging our heads against for the last 50 years. Major cracks have been appearing in it for some time now: The legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and eight other states, the legalization of medical marijuana in 30 states, polls showing 61 percent support among the American people for ending the war on pot, and so on. But the changes in the last few weeks feel like a tipping point. Here’s a short run-down on what’s happened this month, and why it matters: The evolution of John Boehner. On April 11, former Republican House Speaker
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John Boehner announced he had joined the board of directors of Acreage Holdings, a company that grows medical marijuana in 11 states. Back in 2011, Boehner told a reporter for Bloomberg News that he was “unalterably opposed” to legalizing marijuana. Now he says his thinking has “evolved.” “I’m joining the board of Acreage Holdings because my thinking on cannabis has evolved,” he said. “I’m convinced descheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities.” The evolution of Chuck Schumer. On 4/20, non-coincidentally, New York’s senior Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer also announced that his views on pot had “evolved,” and that he would introduce legislation to “decriminalize” marijuana. While the bill has yet to be drafted, reports are that he’s leaning toward removing marijuana entirely from the Controlled Substances Act, which currently lists it as a Schedule I Controlled Substance along with heroin. Delisting would allow marijuana to be treated like alcohol under federal law and would effectively allow states to legalize marijuana if they choose to without federal interference. The Gardner-Trump deal. Schumer’s move may have been prompted in part by an announcement by Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner that he had reached a deal with President Trump, under which the Trump administration would refrain from interfering with state marijuana legalization schemes in return for Gardner releasing his hold orders on a number of Trump Department of Justice appointees. What’s more, Gardner got a promise from Trump for support of “federalism-based” legislation to allow states to decide how they
want to regulate pot without federal interference, which sounds a lot like what Schumer is proposing. Nixon goes to pot. Cynthia Nixon, that is. The Sex and the City actress is running in the New York state Democratic gubernatorial primary against incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo, who’s been an opponent of legalization. Nixon has made marijuana legalization the main issue in her campaign. Her candidacy is definitely a long-shot, but the marijuana issue seems to be resonating for her. The Wolverine Republican rethink. Word out of Michigan is that the state’s marijuana legalization initiative will formally be placed on the state’s November ballot next week — and that this is causing Republican members of the state legislature to consider passing the initiative before the voters get a shot at it. Polling shows the measure has 61 percent support, and GOP legislators think if it is on the ballot it will boost the turnout of young, Democratic-leaning voters. So the idea is to pass the initiative as a state law and take it out of the November election. What should we make of all this? First, marijuana legalization is going to be a big issue in the 2018 elections. Democrats are going to run on it hard, and Republicans are waking up to the fact that if they don’t get on board they could start losing close elections, and maybe control of the House of Representatives. As Charlie Darwin might say, evolve or die. Second, the real importance of having some political heavies like Schumer and Boehner and even Trump signing off on legalization is that they are in effect giving more timid members of their parties permission to “evolve” on the issue. And that is what could really cause the wall to come tumbling down.
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